Anonymous Chat Room – A LiveKit and Next.js Based Anonymous Chat Application

Today we recommend the "anonymous-chat-room" project, an anonymous chatroom built with LiveKit and Next.js that supports text, voice, and screen recording.

Features

Simple deployment: front‑end can be deployed directly to Vercel; back‑end can use LiveKit Cloud free service or be self‑hosted.

Supports video and voice chat (voice enabled by default) without login.

Text chat with emoji support and emoji search.

Additional message types such as images and videos (in development).

Browser can record microphone, speaker, and screen (Chrome/Edge fully supported, Safari lacks speaker recording).

Latency test (basic implementation).

Room password setting.

Front‑end can rotate among multiple API keys.

Local Deployment

1. Clone or download the repository:

git clone [email protected]:velor2012/anonymous-chat-room.git

cd anonymous-chat-room

yarn install

2. Create a new project on cloud.livekit.io and obtain an API key.

3. Edit env.example , rename it to env.local , and fill in the required variables.

4. Start the development server:

npm run dev

Then open http://localhost:3000 in a browser.

Online demo: https://chat.cwy666.eu.org/

Source code: https://github.com/velor2012/anonymous-chat-room