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t-mullen / simple-signal

Signalling solution for simple-peer with socket.io
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[Question] signaling server for simple-peer and compare simple-signal and signalhub #21

Closed pwFoo closed 5 years ago

pwFoo commented 5 years ago

Hi @t-mullen, I found your simple-signal and the link to https://github.com/mafintosh/signalhub during searching for a offer/answer exchange method.

I try to set up a simple signal / offer+answer exchange server (should run on simple webspace of possible or with a simple sef hosted service).

simple-signal and signalhub looks like nodejs server part? So requirements are the same I think, but which one is recommend? First look signalhub seems to be better for availability (supports more than one hub)?

Regards

Andre

pwFoo commented 5 years ago

signalhub looks nice, but last commit is two years ago... But looks like a newer fork which moved to websockets: https://github.com/soyuka/signalhubws

Works simple-signal just with "sockets" or is it possible to set HTTPS addresses as signal server?

t-mullen commented 5 years ago

signalhub is a general-purpose signalling library that lets you broadcast messages over shared channels. It's not specific to WebRTC. It requires virtually no server-side code, meaning it's easy to setup but inflexible about how messages are delivered.

simple-signal uses socket.io as its transport. It's a message-based protocol built on top of Websockets and HTTP (or HTTPS). It requires some custom server-side code - but you can do things you can't easily do with signalhub like:

Since simple-signal is built specifically for simple-peer, it abstracts away the signalling layer entirely, so you can just call connect() and accept() and be connected. You don't need to worry about things like SDP and trickle ICE and signal events. If you have advanced usecases, these things are still available to be tweaked.

Personally, I would recommend simple-signal if you're using simple-peer already. I'm probably biased though! 😄

signalhub would be easier to get started with.

pwFoo commented 5 years ago

ok, thank's, I#ll consider the additional information about integration and inflexible message delivery 👍