In recent posts we’ve seen how to capture a user’s screen in Chrome and Firefox. Now it’s time to combine this with a real video chat application and share screens as part of a video chat.

What we’re building

In this post we’ll take the Twilio Video quickstart application and add screen sharing to it. When we are done your application will let you make calls between browsers and share screens from one to the other.

What you’ll need

To build this application you will need a few things: