jiti-meet/README.md

# Jitsi Meet - Secure, Simple and Scalable Video Conferences

Jitsi Meet is an open-source (Apache) WebRTC JavaScript application that uses [Jitsi Videobridge](https://jitsi.org/videobridge) to provide high quality, scalable video conferences. You can see [Jitsi Meet in action](http://youtu.be/7vFUVClsNh0) here at the session #482 of the VoIP Users Conference.

You can also try it out yourself at https://meet.jit.si .

Jitsi Meet allows for very efficient collaboration. It allows users to stream their desktop or only some windows. It also supports shared document editing with Etherpad.

## Installation

Installing Jitsi Meet is quite a simple experience. For Debian-based systems, we recommend following the [quick-install](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/quick-install.md) document, which uses the package system.

For other systems, or if you wish to install all components manually, see the [detailed manual installation instructions](https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/manual-install.md).

## Download

You can download Debian/Ubuntu binaries:
* [stable](https://download.jitsi.org/stable/) ([instructions](https://jitsi.org/downloads/ubuntu-debian-installations-instructions/))
* [testing](https://download.jitsi.org/testing/) ([instructions](https://jitsi.org/downloads/ubuntu-debian-installations-instructions-for-testing/))
* [nightly](https://download.jitsi.org/unstable/) ([instructions](https://jitsi.org/downloads/ubuntu-debian-installations-instructions-nightly/))

You can download source archives (produced by ```make source-package```):
* [source builds](https://download.jitsi.org/jitsi-meet/src/)

You can get our mobile versions from here:
* [Android](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.jitsi.meet)
* [iOS](https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jitsi-meet/id1165103905)

## Building the sources

Node.js >= 6 is required.

On Debian/Ubuntu systems, the required packages can be installed with:
```
sudo apt-get install npm nodejs-legacy
cd jitsi-meet
npm install
```

To build the Jitsi Meet application, just type
```
make
```

## Working with the library sources (lib-jitsi-meet)

By default the library is build from its git repository sources. The default dependency path in package.json is :
```json
"lib-jitsi-meet": "jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet",
```

To work with local copy you must change the path to:
```json
"lib-jitsi-meet": "file:///Users/name/local-lib-jitsi-meet-copy",
```

To make the project you must force it to take the sources as 'npm update' will not do it.
```
npm install lib-jitsi-meet --force && make
```

Or if you are making only changes to the library:
```
npm install lib-jitsi-meet --force && make deploy-lib-jitsi-meet
```

Alternative way is to use [npm link](https://docs.npmjs.com/cli/link).
It allows to link `lib-jitsi-meet` dependency to local source in few steps:

```bash
cd lib-jitsi-meet

# create global symlink for lib-jitsi-meet package
npm link

cd ../jitsi-meet

# create symlink from the local node_modules folder to the global lib-jitsi-meet symlink
npm link lib-jitsi-meet
```

So now after changes in local `lib-jitsi-meet` repository you can rebuild it with `npm run install` and your `jitsi-meet` repository will use that modified library.
Note: when using node version 4.x, the make file of jitsi-meet do npm update which will delete the link, no longer the case with version 6.x.

If you do not want to use local repository anymore you should run
```bash
cd jitsi-meet
npm unlink lib-jitsi-meet
npm install
```

## Contributing

If you are looking to contribute to Jitsi Meet, first of all, thank you! Please
see our [guidelines for contributing](CONTRIBUTING.md).

## Embedding in external applications

Jitsi Meet provides a very flexible way of embedding it in external applications by using the [Jitsi Meet API](doc/api.md).

## Mobile app
Jitsi Meet is also available as a React Native application for Android and iOS.
Instructions on how to build it can be  found [here](doc/mobile.md).

## Acknowledgements

Jitsi Meet started out as a sample conferencing application using Jitsi Videobridge. It was originally developed by then ESTOS' developer Philipp Hancke who then contributed it to the community where development continues with joint forces!