WordRTC is a WebRTC-based application. It represents a real-time collaborative word processor for two users.

To get up and running this application, simply you can download the package in your local machine. It is necessary to set some parameters that you can find in the first three lines of wordRTC.js with some examples.

You need to register at www.peerjs.com and www.grabz.it. You need to use this application with a WebRTC-supporting browser. Remember that Google Chrome can use the getUserMedia method only with secure origins.

We used the PeerJS library to obtain the connection establishment. PeerJS, using a signaling server, gives an unique ID to the peers when an user create a Peer object with

var peer = new Peer({host:'host', port:'port', path:'path'});

if you have a PeerJS server installed. But PeerJS allows to write

var peer = new Peer({key: 'YOUR_API_KEY'});

using the key obtained at www.peerjs.com.

The UI is in Italian. You can write a document with a friend simply sending him the link appearing at the top. The editing will be real-time and collaborative. You can also start an audio call with your friend to obtain a better experience. Remember that the application cannot store your document, but you can save it as PDF.

You can read more at http://bit.ly/wordrtc-doc (in Italian).

The authors are Flavio Fanigliulo and Antonio Ferrara from Politecnico di Bari. The application was built under the supervision of Luca De Cicco and Saverio Mascolo.