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by aoberoi 3731 days ago
TokBox Engineer here. We set out to make a high quality starting point for anyone who wants to include embedded RTC in their next app (or crazy idea). Part of that is solving for the client-side concerns, like an easy toolchain, rich APIs for customizability, and some helpful code that shows the best practices our combined experience with the platform has given us (like above, but stay tuned for more!).

But there are definitely more parts, TURN/STUN for network traversal is just the beginning. The OpenTok platform behind this sample app adds dynamic optimizations (like audio fallback), archiving (recording) capabilities, RESTful APIs for eventing and control, etc. Just standing up a STUN/TURN server isn't going to solve the hard problems it takes to make something that can eventually go to production.

EDIT: spacing, clarity