ConnectX

Hosted At - https://connect-x.vercel.app/

Vide Demo - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlL0cPCNIdM

Features -

1. Video Conferencing with upto 9 people at a time.
2. Chat with them in the video meet.
3. Screen Share, toggle audio/video.
4. Whiteboard - realtime drawing together.
5. Invite participants - enter their email id and an email is sent to them via ConnectX
6. Schedule a meeting for later
   • this creates a special meet room in chats tab.
   • adds an event for specified date and time in calendar.
   • sends an invite mail to all the invitees.
7. Special Features of this meet room
   • continue the conversation before and after the meet only with participants that you have invited.
   • Chat of this meet is visible to invited participants irrespective of whether they join the meet or not.
   • participants invited via other means can access chat only during the meet.
   • join meet icon appears 5 min prior to the scheduled meet time.
8. General purpose chat room in Chats Tab .
9. Voice to text messaging to enable hands free writing.
10. File Sharing.
11. View all files together in Files tab
    • advantage preview files without downloading and download only if you want to.
12. As an added bonus use Calendar as personalized To Do List .
    • Add/Update/Delete any task
    • ConnectX will make sure you don't forget the task by sending a reminder mail 15 mins prior to the event
13. Manual and Google Authentication

Tech Stack Used

1. Backend - Node.js (Express.js)

   • easy to configure and customize
   • allows to create REST APIs and middlewares
   • easy to connect with database

2. Frontend - React.js

   • allows writing custom components
   • offers fast rendering
   • better code stability

3. Database - Mongoose (MongoDB)

   • Node.js based object data modelling library for Node.js

4. For Video conferencing and Chats - Socket.io and WebRTC

Installation Steps

1. Backend

cd backend

install dependencies

npm i

run server (running at 5000)

nodemon index.js

2. Frontend

cd frontend

install dependencies

npm i

run server (running at 3000)

npm run start

** Note- mailing facility won't be available in cloned project, replace mail id and password in nodemailer.js (if you are cloning this project) **