LiveKit
End-to-end WebRTC stack for real-time video, audio, and data streaming.
Why consider LiveKit?
LiveKit is an open-source WebRTC platform and developer stack for building multi-user video, spatial audio, and AI voice agent applications with sub-100ms latency.
Learn LiveKit by building
Practical setup notes, real use cases, and copy-ready examples in one focused guide.
In this guide3 sections
Overview of LiveKit
LiveKit provides scalable infrastructure for real-time WebRTC communications. Built in Go, it features an advanced Selective Forwarding Unit (SFU), client SDKs for JavaScript, React, Swift, Kotlin, Flutter, and Unity, and native support for OpenAI Realtime Voice agents.
Quickstart with LiveKit CLI
# Install livekit-servercurl -sSL https://get.livekit.io | bash# Run in development modelivekit-server --devConnecting via React SDK
import { LiveKitRoom, VideoConference } from "@livekit/components-react";import "@livekit/components-styles";export default function App() { return ( <LiveKitRoom video={true} audio={true} token="YOUR_PARTICIPANT_JWT_TOKEN" serverUrl="ws://localhost:7880" > <VideoConference /> </LiveKitRoom> );}LiveKit is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0.
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