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WebRTC For The Curious #

This book was created by WebRTC implementers to share their hard-earned knowledge with the world. WebRTC For The Curious is an Open Source book written for those that are always looking for more. This book doesn’t settle for abstraction.

This book is all about protocols and APIs, and will not be talking about any software in particular. We attempt to summarize RFCs and get all undocumented knowledge into one place. This book is not a tutorial, and will not contain much code.

WebRTC is a wonderful technology but is difficult to use. This book is vendor agnostic, and we have tried to remove any conflicts of interest.

Who is this book for. #

• Developers who don’t even know what WebRTC solves, and want to learn more.
• Someone who is already building with WebRTC but wants to know more beyond the APIs.
• Established Developer who needs help debugging.
• WebRTC implementer who needs clarification on a specific part.

Designed for multiple readings #

This book is designed to be read multiple times. Each chapter is self-contained, so you can jump to any part of the book and not be lost.

Each chapter aims to answer a single question, with three levels of information.

• What needs to be solved?
• How do we solve it?
• Technical details about the solution.

Each chapter doesn’t assume prior knowledge. You can start at any point in the book and begin learning.

Non-commercial and privacy-respecting #

This book is available on GitHub and WebRTCforTheCurious.com. It is licensed in a way that you can use it however you think is best. You can also download the book in its current version as an ePub or PDF file.

This book is written by individuals, for individuals. It is vendor agnostic so we will not make recommendations that could be a conflict of interest.

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