API Tutorial

Custom Daily

Add hand-raising to your custom video app with the Daily user data API

Use the new user data Daily API and the Daily React Hooks library to add hand-raising to your custom WebRTC video application

Streaming

Stream with HLS while recording to a custom S3 bucket using Daily

Stream directly from a low-latency WebRTC call using HLS while recording too!

Integrations

Tutorial: Integrate CometChat’s chat widget into a Daily video app for an enriched chat experience

Leverage CometChat's advanced chat APIs to enhance in-app engagement for specific use cases

VCS

Add a frame to your live stream host’s video with Daily’s VCS

Use margin settings and a background image trick to style your host’s video

Social Gaming

Building a social game with Daily

Introducing Code of Daily: Modern Wordfare

VCS

Add a splash screen to live streams and cloud recordings with Daily’s VCS baseline composition

How to display an opening splash screen, transition splash screen, and set an image as the background

VCS

VCS tutorial: Add a dynamic moving watermark to any live stream or recording

Add a moving watermark graphic to your Daily live streaming or cloud recording with Daily VCS

VCS

Add text animations to Daily live streams with Daily's VCS baseline composition

Display dynamic live stream viewer feedback using Daily's new Video Component System (VCS) default compositions

Daily React Hooks

Add chat to your custom video app with Daily React Hooks (Part 3)

Use daily-js and the Daily React Hooks library to add chat to your WebRTC video application

API

Comparing domain, room, and meeting token REST API configurations for Daily calls

How to override room and domain settings with Daily meeting tokens

Daily React Hooks

Add a “prejoin” UI to a custom video app with the Daily React Hooks library (Part 2)

Use daily-js and the Daily React Hooks library to add a prejoin user interface to your WebRTC video application

API Tutorial

Adding video backgrounds to a Daily call in a browser app

How to add virtual backgrounds to a vanilla JS WebRTC video call app powered by Daily

API Tutorial

Customize live streamed Daily Prebuilt video call layouts with Daily's VCS

Create dynamic live streaming layouts with images, text, and more using Daily’s new Video Composition System (VCS)

Daily React Hooks

Build a custom video app with React and the Daily React Hooks library (Part 1)

Use daily-js and the Daily React Hooks library to create a custom video application from scratch

Fitness use case

Fitness app use case: Adding an “incognito mode” for participants

Create more privacy for participants by letting them toggle who can see them

Electron

Extending a Daily Prebuilt Electron app with custom virtual backgrounds

How to add a virtual backgrounds feature to an Electron Daily Prebuilt application

API Tutorial

Add live captions to your Daily Prebuilt calls

Use the daily-js transcription API to get subtitles with every video call

Fitness use case

Auto-record calls when the instructor joins the class

Using meeting tokens and Daily’s recording API to record a specific call participant

Spatialization

Testing our spatialization features with robots and Jest (Part 7)

Manual and automated testing of spatial video and spatial audio

API Tutorial

Mute fitness class participants in a video chat app when the instructor joins

Updating Daily’s fitness class app demo to auto-mute participants

Spatialization

Adding screen sharing support to our spatialization demo (Part 6)

Tips and tricks for screen sharing with Daily

API Tutorial

How to display device permission errors in a custom video or audio call app built with Daily

Adding a device permissions prompt using the Daily SvelteKit app as an example

API Tutorial

Build a custom video chat using Daily and web components

Add video calling to your app with only native HTML custom elements and plain JS

API Tutorial

Introducing the new Daily React Hooks library

Speed up development time, simplify code, and optimize performance in React-based real-time audio and video apps

Spatialization

Creating interactive focus zones in Daily’s spatialization demo (Part 5)

Broadcasting and gathering in small groups