Request: Ability to set TURN server credentials as env variables

[dillfrescott]

I believe this would be a good feature for selfhosters, because it avoids github scrapers from using up all my allotted bandwidth lol

[dillfrescott]

I use vercel for deploying Chitchatter, so maybe something compatible with that

[jeremyckahn]

This seems like a worthwhile addition to Chitchatter, but I don't know that it will solve the problem of scrapers from using your TURN credentials. Those credentials are baked into the built assets and are available publicly, so they'd just have to adjust their methods a bit to get what they're looking for.

To truly secure TURN credentials, we'd need some sort of API that provides temporary TURN credentials (similar to a session token). I think something like Twilio's Network Traversal product can provide this, but that's not something that Chitchatter currently supports.

All that said, I think this could be useful for the sake of configuration, so I'll leave this issue open.

[dillfrescott]

Ohhh okay gotcha

[ChronosCrake]

Since I self host chit chatter and want to be able to have consistent uptime, if I wanted to self host a coturn server for use just between me and the intended users, where would I specify the IP and credentials in the files if I wanted to point it to instead use my own turn server?

[jeremyckahn]

@ChronosCrake for that, I believe you'd want to set your Coturn server's configuration in the rtcConfig object in src/config/rtcConfig.ts and then redeploy your instance.