--- title: Live Streaming with React — More Rust in the JavaScript Eco… description: Live Compositor is a media server with a Rust-based rendering engine that lets developers control live video stream composition using React components. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/live-streaming-with-react-more-rust-in-the-javascript-eco--v4nhwl765 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Live Streaming with React — More Rust in the JavaScript Eco… | daily.dev og:description: Live Compositor is a media server with a Rust-based rendering engine that lets developers control live video stream composition using React components. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/live-streaming-with-react-more-rust-in-the-javascript-eco--v4nhwl765 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/v4nHWl765.png og:image:alt: Live Streaming with React — More Rust in the JavaScript Eco… og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Live Streaming with React — More Rust in the JavaScript Eco… **[Software Mansion](https://daily.dev/sources/swmansion)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Live Compositor is a media server with a Rust-based rendering engine that lets developers control live video stream composition using React components. The JavaScript SDK runs in Node.js and translates React component renders into HTTP update requests to the Live Compositor server. The post explains why Rust was chosen (frame-level timing precision, wgpu/WebGPU portability, WASM compilation), why React was chosen (generic reconciler abstraction, familiar developer experience), and why a custom rendering engine was built instead of using Chromium or FFmpeg. Key differentiators include per-frame layout updates, custom WGSL shader support, and a layout model tailored for video rather than web UIs. Upcoming features include browser-side SDK support, hardware-accelerated video decode via Vulkan extensions, and additional streaming protocols like WHIP/WHEP and RTMP. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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