Anonymous Chat Room – A LiveKit and Next.js Based Anonymous Chat Application
This article introduces the open‑source "anonymous‑chat‑room" project built with LiveKit and Next.js, outlines its key features such as text, voice, video, emoji support and screen recording, and provides step‑by‑step instructions for local deployment and online access.
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.gitcd anonymous-chat-roomyarn install2. 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
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