Increasingly, developers are thinking multi-platform and how to get more done with fewer resources and maintenance overhead. React developers, in particular, naturally consider ReactNative as an entry point into mobile development. Since we launched LiveKit last summer, React Native has consistently been the most requested platform for us to support.

If you're building with React, our React SDK makes it simple to add real-time audio and video to your app. We provide state management and media rendering utility components, allowing you to implement custom UI components and designs. The same SDK also includes pre-built components for constructing video calls or

In the last couple years, many [https://decentraland.org/] exciting [https://theportal.to/] metaverse [https://www.sandbox.game/en/] projects [https://www.gather.town/] have started with visions to connect us through immersive, spatial environments; closer to how we connect with others in the physical world. A unifying principle among

For the last few months, we’ve been quietly working on a bunch of things. Following in the footsteps of other OSS projects, we’ve lined up a whole week’s worth of announcements! Every day next week at 10am PT, we’ll drop something new. Here’s a preview

Pre-pandemic, we did most things offline. 2020 brought a sea change: we worked, shopped, studied, cooked, watched movies, exercised, dated, and even got married over the Internet — in short, we now did most things online by default. While it looked like the Brady Bunch credits, the moment we collectively began

This article is now out of date. For up to date instructions, see https://docs.livekit.io/deploy/vmIt’s now been a few months since we launched LiveKit [https://github.com/livekit/livekit-server], and we’ve noticed getting up and running can be tricky if you don’t have

Everything you wanted to know about simulcast, but were afraid to ask Simulcast [https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8853/] is one of the coolest features of WebRTC, allowing WebRTC conferences to scale despite participants with unpredictable network connectivity. In this post, we’ll dive into simulcast and explore how it

A look at how we’ve pushed participant limits in WebRTC Background In preparation for our LiveKit [https://github.com/livekit/livekit-server] launch [https://www.producthunt.com/posts/livekit], we needed to know (and share) how many participants could join a room running on our stack. So, we spun up

tl;dr We’re building Stripe for real-time communications In 2006, Apple started building webcams into their line of plastic, white MacBooks. Seeing a new opportunity for people to connect over the Internet, I went through YCombinator’s “Summer Founders Program” in 2007 and launched the first website for meeting