support for multiple tab connection

[Jaysojitra13]

When I establish a connection using perrjs in one tab of chrome, it's working properly. But when I open a new tab, it again tries to make a connection. So it throws an error like "ID_IS_TAKEN".

Usecase is when I open multiple tabs, the connection should remain the same across all the tabs.

Is there any way to prevent this?

[jrowny]

Each tab will need a unique ID because they'll need a unique connection to each other. Each tab would just be another peer. There's no way to keep the same connection across tabs.

[Jaysojitra13]

Thank you @jrowny for the update.

[quentincaffeino]

@Jaysojitra13, I think Workers could help you with that. At least that's an optimization I'm planning to do sometime with my project.

[Jaysojitra13]

@quentincaffeino , I also tried with the sharedWorkers. But the problem is I'm not able to pass the object of peerjs itself.

Here is the reference, https://blog.arnellebalane.com/sending-data-across-different-browser-tabs-6225daac93ec.

Let me know if you found any solution.

[quentincaffeino]

@Jaysojitra13, And you won't be able because they don't share any mutual memory and all connection between worker and client is going through binary data channel.

I don't understand why would you want to pass peerjs instance.

The solution is to use messaging between worker and a client.
I'd suggest using Workbox and Workbox-Client with ServiceWorkers cause it might make your life easier (at least it made mine).