May 2020 Summaries

At Daily, developers can use Glitch to create projects from scratch or "remix" others for inspiration, with a focus on simplicity and ease of use. Glitch provides a friendly community-oriented developer tool that allows users to create projects backed by real servers, making it easy to get started and scale their project. To begin, users simply need to add their API key to the `.env` file in Glitch editor, which includes public API endpoints that return data via the Daily API. The server code uses express and axios to handle incoming requests and make requests to external APIs. Users can create reusable endpoints using an `apiHelper` function, and verify their server's functionality by making a sample request to the Daily API. With this functional server, developers can add more endpoints as needed and consider becoming a Glitch member for added benefits.

To create access control via the Daily.co API, first create a room with specific properties such as privacy and owner_only_broadcast. Then, create meeting tokens for users with different roles, including administrator, teacher, and student, each with their own set of properties to grant varying levels of access. Finally, test the tokens by adding them to meeting links, which will determine the level of camera, microphone, and screen sharing permissions available to each user.

You can offer video calls without scheduling times in advance by receiving notifications when users join a room. To do this, you'll need to configure a webhook for individual rooms or your entire subdomain using the Daily.co API. You can create a room and set its meeting_join_hook property to receive POST requests with information about the room and who joined. You can then use these notifications to initiate actions in your application, such as notifying your support team that there is a user waiting. Additionally, you can configure domain-level notifications for all rooms in your subdomain, which can be useful for implementing usage tracking or responsive room management.