--- title: Best WebRTC posts of 2021 | daily.dev description: The most upvoted WebRTC posts of 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. canonical: https://daily.dev/tags/webrtc/best-of/2021 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:url: https://daily.dev/tags/webrtc/best-of/2021 og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Best WebRTC posts of 2021 | daily.dev og:description: The most upvoted WebRTC posts of 2021, curated by the daily.dev community. og:image: https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--VAY5ToZt--/f_auto/v1724209435/public/daily.dev%20-%20open%20graph --- # Best of WebRTC — 2021 1. 1 [](/posts/building-a-video-chat-app-with-node-js-socket-io-webrtc-rwobpbgiy "Building a Video Chat App with Node.js + Socket.io + WebRTC") Article gitconnected · 6y Building a Video Chat App with Node.js + Socket.io + WebRTC Building a Video Chat App with Node.js + Socket.io + WebRTC Taran Arora shares his tips on how to build a video chat app using JavaScript and NodeJS. It will also show you how to use PeerJS,WebRTC, and Nodemon to build the app. 121 7 2. 2 [](/posts/webrtc-for-beginners-how-it-all-works-from-the-outside--b22dh3zue "WebRTC for beginners; How it all works from the outside!") Article ITNEXT · 6y WebRTC for beginners; How it all works from the outside! WebRTC is an open framework that enables Real Time Communication(RTC), which is very useful for things like Video-Audio calling, Chatting, P2P file sharing, … It is the open standard for real-time communication, which powers so many products and is being used in production at huge organizations. Applications like Zoom makes use of WebRTC indirectly for the data channels and stuff. 26 3. 3 [](/posts/webrtc-is-now-a-w3c-and-ietf-standard-eotnbd5rc "WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard") Article web.dev · 6y WebRTC is now a W3C and IETF standard WebRTC is a platform giving browsers, mobile apps, and desktop apps real-time communication capabilities, typically used for video calling. Google initiated the idea to create WebRTC in 2009, as an alternative to Adobe Flash and desktop applications that couldn't run in the browser. In 2013, Mozilla and Google demonstrated video calling between their browsers. 25 2 4. 4 [](/posts/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-webrtc-l9mcfjsj9 "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About WebRTC") Article asayer · 5y Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About WebRTC 21 2 5. 5 [](/posts/building-a-video-chat-app-with-webrtc-firebase-nqvr7letc "Building a video chat app with WebRTC & firebase") Article Medium · 5y Building a video chat app with WebRTC & firebase WebRTC is a free and open-source project providing real-time communication via application programming interfaces. WebRTC uses VoIP techniques to get the media processed and sent over the SRTP (Secure Real-time Transfer Protocol) — the secure and encrypted version of RTP. 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