Meet

Meet is a simple video and phone conferencing tool, powered by LiveKit.

Meet is built on top of Django Rest Framework and Vite.js.

Getting started

Prerequisite

Docker

Make sure you have a recent version of Docker and Docker Compose installed on your laptop:

$ docker -v
  Docker version 20.10.2, build 2291f61

$ docker compose -v
  docker compose version 1.27.4, build 40524192

⚠️ You may need to run the following commands with sudo but this can be avoided by assigning your user to the docker group.

LiveKit CLI

Install LiveKit CLI, which provides utilities for interacting with the LiveKit ecosystem (including the server, egress, and more), please follow the instructions available in the official repository.

Project bootstrap

The easiest way to start working on the project is to use GNU Make:

$ make bootstrap FLUSH_ARGS='--no-input'

Then you can access to the project in development mode by going to http://localhost:3000. You will be prompted to log in, the default credentials are:

username: meet
password: meet

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This command builds the app container, installs dependencies, performs database migrations and compile translations. It's a good idea to use this command each time you are pulling code from the project repository to avoid dependency-related or migration-related issues.

Your Docker services should now be up and running 🎉

[FIXME] Explain how to run the frontend project.

Configure LiveKit CLI

For the optimal DX, create a default project named meet to use with livekit-cli commands:

$ livekit-cli project add
URL: http://localhost:7880
API Key: devkey
API Secret: secret
Give it a name for later reference: meet
? Make this project default?? [y/N] y

Thus, you won't need to pass the project API Key and API Secret for each command.

Adding content

You can create a basic demo site by running:

$ make demo

Finally, you can check all available Make rules using:

$ make help

Django admin

You can access the Django admin site at http://localhost:8071/admin.

You first need to create a superuser account:

$ make superuser

Run application on local Kubernetes

The application is deployed across staging, preprod, and production environments using Kubernetes (K8s). Reproducing environment conditions locally is crucial for developing new features or debugging issues.

This is facilitated by Tilt ("Kubernetes for Prod, Tilt for Dev"). Tilt enables smart rebuilds and live updates for services running locally in Kubernetes. We defined our services in a Tiltfile located at bin/Tiltfile.

Getting Started

Make sure you have installed:

• kubectl
• helm
• helmfile
• tilt

To build and start the Kubernetes cluster using Kind:

$ make build-k8s-cluster 

Once the Kubernetes cluster is ready, start the application stack locally:

$ make start-tilt

These commands set up and run your application environment using Tilt for local Kubernetes development.

You can monitor Tilt's at http://localhost:10350/. After Tilt actions finish, you can access the app at https://meet.127.0.0.1.nip.io/.

Debugging frontend

Tilt deploys the meet-dev for the frontend by default, to benefit from Vite.js hot reloading while developing. To troubleshoot production issues, please modify the Tiltfile, switch frontend's target to frontend-production:

...

docker_build(
    'localhost:5001/meet-frontend:latest',
    context='..',
    dockerfile='../src/frontend/Dockerfile',
    only=['./src/frontend', './docker', './.dockerignore'],
    target='frontend-production',  # Update this line when needed
    live_update=[
        sync('../src/frontend', '/home/frontend'),
    ]
)
...

Contributing

This project is intended to be community-driven, so please, do not hesitate to get in touch if you have any question related to our implementation or design decisions.

License

This work is released under the MIT License (see LICENSE).