Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript

Build video calling, audio calling, and screen sharing applications powered by Amazon Chime.

The Amazon Chime SDK makes it easy to add collaborative audio calling, video calling, and screen share features to web applications by using the same infrastructure services that power millions of Amazon Chime online meetings.

This Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript works by connecting to meeting session resources that you have created in your AWS account. The SDK has everything you need to build custom calling and collaboration experiences in your web application, including methods to: configure meeting sessions, list and select audio and video devices, start and stop screen share and screen share viewing, receive callbacks when media events occur such as volume changes, and control meeting features such as audio mute and video tile bindings.

To get started, see the following resources:

• Amazon Chime
• Amazon Chime Developer Guide
• Amazon Chime SDK API Reference
• JavaScript Client SDK Documentation

And review the following guides:

• Getting Started

Prerequisites

To build, test, and run demos from source you will need:

• Node 10 or higher
• npm 6.11 or higher

Installing from NPM

To add the Amazon Chime SDK for JavaScript into an existing application, install the package directly from npm:

npm install amazon-chime-sdk-js --save

Running the browser demos with a local server

To run demo applications see the README.md file in the demos/browser folder. To run the meeting application demo locally:

1. Ensure you have AWS credentials configured in your ~/.aws folder for a role with a policy allowing chime:CreateMeeting, chime:DeleteMeeting, and chime:CreateAttendee.

2. Change to the demos/browser folder: cd demos/browser

3. Start the demo application: npm run start

4. Open http://localhost:8080 in your browser.

Deploying the serverless browser demo

You can deploy any of the demos as self-contained serverless applications. Note: deploying the serverless demo may incur extra charges in your AWS account.

Install aws and sam command line tools

• Install the AWS CLI
• Install the AWS SAM CLI

Run deployment script

The following will create a CloudFormation stack containing a Lambda and API Gateway deployment that runs the meeting demo.

cd demos/serverless
node ./deploy.js -r us-east-1 -b <my-bucket> -s <my-stack-name> -a meeting

The script will create an S3 bucket and CloudFormation stack with Lambda and API Gateway resources required to run the demo. After the script finishes, it will output a URL that can be opened in a browser.

Building and testing

npm run build
npm run test

After running npm run test the first time, you can use npm run test:fast to speed up the test suite.

To view code coverage results open build/coverage/index.html in your browser after running npm run test.

Generating the documentation

To generate JavaScript API reference documentation run:

npm run build
npm run doc

Then open docs/index.html in your browser.

Reporting a suspected vulnerability

If you discover a potential security issue in this project we ask that you notify AWS/Amazon Security via our vulnerability reporting page. Please do not create a public GitHub issue.

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