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A collaboration application built with the twilio-video.js SDK and React.js
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How to implement one to one chat feature? #624

Closed SanjayBikhchandani closed 2 years ago

SanjayBikhchandani commented 2 years ago

@timmydoza Can we use Twilio conversation API for this?

timmydoza commented 2 years ago

Hi @SanjayBikhchandani - thanks for the question! I think it would be possible to do this with the conversations API. It would be much more complicated than the current implementation though.

Right now, every time a room is created, this app's backend will created a new conversation resource associated with the room. This 'conversation resource' is where all of the group chats in the room happen.

So in order to have a one to one video chat, this app's backend would have to create a new conversation resource for every 1:1 conversation that happened in the room. This could be quite a lot of conversations, but I think it would still be possible to implement with some work. Unfortunately, this feature is a bit out-of-scope for this video app, so we won't be implementing it.

Thanks again for the question! Please let me know if there's anything else we can help with.