Welcome to LiveKit!
LiveKit is an open source WebRTC stack that pretty much gives you access to everything you'll ever need to build a scalable and real-time video/audio/data type of application. Along with the features LiveKit offer, I've also included a lot of custom features that now make this plugin capable of re-creating the same functionality which you see in both Google Meet and WhatsApp (for both mobile/desktop views). A lot of time, thought and testing have gone into this plugin making sure all browsers are supported, it's reliable and fast. It's taken a little under 4 months to complete (along with all the documentation and three demo pages) and I'm hoping it will serve everyone’s needs.

Any features that had been previously asked for throughout other plugins of this nature, have been considered and added into this one.

Since this uses LiveKit under the hood, you'll need to sign up with them. A free account gives you a generous quota limit that consists of the following:

• Up to 50GB of data transfer
• 60 minutes of transcoding
• Up to 100 concurrent connections (participants joined to a room)
• 1 concurrent recording session

These are reset every month.


Below are just some of the features you'll get.

• Fully configurable UI inside the plugin options that allow you to define a lot of CSS
• High-quality video and audio, various options will allow you to adjust this
• The ability to screen share, mute both video/audio
• All video/audio constraints configurable, such as resolutions, echo cancellation, noise suppression, sample rates etc
• Remote participants can be muted if you're the room owner
• End to end encryption and JSON Web Tokens are used to add security to your video/audio streams
• Videos background can be changed, like you can do with Google Meet or you can blur video backgrounds instead
• Avatars can be used with facial recognition software to mimic your own facial movements and then be published to the room instead of your camera.
• Audio can be routed through a WebSocket connection (both client/server-side) for feeding into third party applications
• Floating video elements can be configured for when 2 participants are connected, similar to how you see with typical mobile video calls
• Name labels and microphone indicators can be shown
• Ability to swap video elements when you click them
• Can optionally record participant's location details so you plot locations of where people are on a map if they're decide to share
• Three different views can be configured, gallery, grid and speaker modes
• Speech detection included and you can take action like animate borders as a user is speaking
• Camera mute options, can display custom images or user's initials (and animate on speech detection) just like Google Meet do
• Uses flex components to allow everything to be fully responsive and you can set a number of aspect ratios on video elements
• Send data messages between one of more participants
• Contains a knocking feature which is where the room owner has to accept/reject requests before allowing others to join a room
• Rooms are created when needed and automatically removed when the last participant leaves
• Participants can be forcibly kicked/removed from a room if required
• Has a built-in adaptive streaming feature where you may choose to dynamically pause data streams when the page isn't focused or another tab is open
• Capable of using multiple video devices and flip the video horizontally


Enjoy! And if you experience any problems then please feel free to shout at me because I will be supporting this.