Start or Join Meeting

After the successful installation of VideoSDK, the next step is to integrate VideoSDK features with your webApp/MobileApp.

To Communicate with other participant's audio or video call, you will need to join the meeting.

This guide will provide an overview of how to configure, initialize and join a VideoSDK meeting.

1. Configuration

To configure a meeting, you will need generated token and meetingId, we had discussed in Server Setup. This code snippet calls API from local server

Scenario 1 - Suppose you don't have any meetingId, you can simply generate meetingId by invoking create-meeting API.

Scenario 2 - Suppose you have meetingId, now you don't have to call create-meeting API to generate meetingId, instead you can call validate-meeting API to validate meetingId.

Token generation API is necessary for both scenario.

note

You can take advantage of regional API to decrease latency in video calling.

To achieve region based meetings, just pass region : REGION_CODE parameter in create-meeting request Body.

Currently the below regions are supported:

• sg001 Region Code for Singapore, SG.
• in002 Region Code for Bangalore, IN.
• us001 Region Code for Fremont, CA.
• eu001 Region Code for Frankfurt, DE.

In case you are not providing any region code, the default region will be sg001.

const getToken = async () => {
  try {
    const response = await fetch(`${LOCAL_SERVER_URL}/get-token`, {
      method: "GET",
      headers: {
        Accept: "application/json",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
      },
    });
    const { token } = await response.json();
    return token;
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
};

const getMeetingId = async (token) => {
  try {
    const VIDEOSDK_API_ENDPOINT = `${LOCAL_SERVER_URL}/create-meeting`;
    const options = {
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({ token, region: "sg001" }),
    };
    const response = await fetch(VIDEOSDK_API_ENDPOINT, options)
      .then(async (result) => {
        const { meetingId } = await result.json();
        return meetingId;
      })
      .catch((error) => console.log("error", error));
    return response;
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
};

/** This API is for validate the meeting id  */
/** Not require to call this API after create meeting API  */
const validateMeeting = async (token, meetingId) => {
  try {
    const VIDEOSDK_API_ENDPOINT = `${LOCAL_SERVER_URL}/validate-meeting/${meetingId}`;
    const options = {
      method: "POST",
      headers: {
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
      },
      body: JSON.stringify({ token }),
    };
    const response = await fetch(VIDEOSDK_API_ENDPOINT, options)
      .then(async (result) => {
        const { meetingId } = await result.json();
        return meetingId;
      })
      .catch((error) => console.log("error", error));
    return response;
  } catch (e) {
    console.log(e);
  }
};
const access_token = await getToken();
const meetingId = await getMeetingId(access_token);
const validatedMeetingId = await validateMeeting(token, "provided-meeting-id");

2. Initialization

After configuration, you will have to Initialize

meeting by providing name, meetingId, micEnabled, webcamEnabled & maxResolution.

NOTE : For React & React native developer, you have

to be familiar with hooks concept. You can understand hooks concept on React Hooks.

import { MeetingProvider, useMeeting } from "@videosdk.live/react-sdk";

const App = () => {
  // Init Meeting Provider
  return (
    <MeetingProvider
      config={{
        meetingId: "<Id-on-meeting>",
        name: "<Name-of-participant>",
        participantId:'Id-of-participant' // optional, default: SDK will generate
        micEnabled: "<Flag-to-enable-mic>",
        webcamEnabled: "<Flag-to-enable-webcam>",
        maxResolution: "<Maximum-resolution>",
      }}
      token={"<Authentication-token>"}
    >
      <MeetingView>...</MeetingView>
    </MeetingProvider>
  );
};

const MeetingView = () => {
  // Get Meeting object using useMeeting hook
  const meeting = useMeeting();

  return <>...</>;
};

3. Join

After configuration & initialization, the third step is to call join() to join a meeting.

After joining, you will be able to Manage Participant in a meeting.

const onPress = () => {
  // Joining Meeting
  meeting?.join();
};