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Liveblocks

Real-time collaboration API.

Components to easily add live presence (live cursors, chat and reactions). Abstracts away the backend implementation challenges - networking, performance, presence detection, multi-browser support. Vendored as React / Node packages. Auth hooks to validate user permissions. Examples for raw JS, Next.js, Nuxt.js and React + Firebase.

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Livekit

Open source live video and audio API.

SDKs for React, JS, iOS and Android to build video / audio without needing to understand WebRTC. Selective Forwarding Unit server makes it easy to scale from P2P to supporting large numbers of participants. Server scales horizontally using Redis as the backend. Automatically supports different connection types (UDP, TCP, TURN) and simulcasting.

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