Airtime meeting app

This is a video meeting app built with Next.js. It's live on https://meet.airtime.com.

Tech Stack

• Typescript
• Next.js 15 (App router)
• Socket.io client
• PeerJS client

Getting Started

Clone the repository and install npm modules.

• To run dev server

  npm run dev
  

• To build the project

  npm run build
  

• To run prod server after building the project

  npm start
  

Deployment

Prepare the server (e.g. AWS EC2 instance - ubuntu 24) and make sure your server has nodejs v20+ installed. Upload the codebase on your server and then install npm modules to run the project.

Install pm2 globally:

npm install -g pm2

Run the project as a damon:

cd /your-project-root-directory/
npm run build
pm2 start "npm start" --name "frontend"

The project will run on the port 3000 by default.

Install nginx. (You maybe have more than one project on the server like a backend project. That's why we need nginx.)

sudo apt install nginx

Prepare the ssl certificate including *.crt, *.ca-bundle, *.key. Here nginx requires chain certificate file. It means that you need to combine the crt and ca-bundle with one crt. You can do it with this command:

cat STAR_airtime_com.crt STAR_airtime_com.ca-bundle > STAR_airtime_com_nginx.crt

Edit the nginx conf file (/etc/nginx/sites-available/default):

server {
  server_name         meet.airtime.com;
  listen              443 ssl;

  ssl                 on;
  ssl_certificate        /home/ubuntu/airtime/STAR_airtime_com_nginx.crt;
  ssl_certificate_key    /home/ubuntu/airtime/STAR_airtime_com.key;

  location / {
    proxy_buffering     off;
    proxy_pass          http://localhost:3000/;

	  proxy_http_version  1.1;
	  proxy_set_header    Upgrade $http_upgrade;
	  proxy_set_header    Connection 'upgrade';
	  proxy_set_header    Host $host;
  }
}

Restart the nginx service:

sudo systemctl restart nginx

Make sure your domain is correctly linked the server ip address. Then your website is live on https://meet.airtime.com.