party-line VS call-object-react

(Full disclosure: I work at Daily) There are lots of video/voice APIs built on WebRTC that will handle all of the annoying bits for you while still getting all of the benefits of using WebRTC. Daily's one example but there are lots of other ones too. My suggestion would be to use a third-party API that handles WebRTC browser quirks for you. It's a fairly big commitment to build it out yourself so if you want to add a voice chat feature without the headache, it's nice to use an existing solution for production-level apps. Here's a demo app I worked on last year that's basically a Clubhouse clone in React as one example. https://github.com/daily-demos/party-line/tree/main/react

Recently on the Daily blog, we discussed how to build your own audio call app in React Native. That tutorial specifically looked at Daily’s Party Line demo app, which was built to handle the use case where every call is always audio-only.

We have a sample app here if you're curious to test it out. I built a Clubhouse-ish clone for RN with it too.

At Daily, we’ve spent a lot of time making sure our video and audio-only APIs can be used with any frontend framework, or no framework at all. 🍦 It’s important to us to make flexible APIs that can be incorporated into any app looking to add audio and video chat. We’ve created several demos for our customers using plain JavaScript, React, Next.js, React Native, and more to help cover as many use cases as possible.

I know this doesn't answer your question about mediasoup but I helped build a demo for audio-only rooms using daily-js and all the code is public. Might help in case you're looking for other options too. It's written in React but can be rewritten in Vue.

Hey! if you prefer to use something higher level to manage all of the webrtc/calling parts of this, Daily might fit the bill. Here's a sample repo where we built a cross platform audio calling app https://github.com/daily-demos/party-line which should give you a sense for what's possible. It has examples in React, React Native, iOS (swift), and Android (kotlin, java). There are lots of other options from other vendors so definitely check out what they have to offer, but I like to think we make it as easy as possible.

Intended to be tongue in cheek, not click bait. ymmv. Direct link to the sample code if you prefer: https://github.com/daily-demos/party-line

Cross-platform quirks still make doing WebRTC hacking difficult enough that we very much think it's worth publishing both sample code and tutorials at varying levels of detail. And we try to make them entertaining. This one has working code for the web, React Native, iOS native, and Android native. We get asked how to make things work cross-platform *a lot*.

At Daily, we’ve spent a lot of time making sure our video and audio-only APIs can be used with any frontend framework, or no framework at all. 🍦 It’s important to us to make flexible APIs that can be incorporated into any app looking to add audio and video chat. We’ve created several demos for our customers using plain JavaScript, React, Next.js, React Native, and more to help cover as many use cases as possible.