FaceLink is a feature-rich video conferencing platform built for seamless and secure collaboration. It allows users to create and join meetings with real-time interactions such as screen sharing, recording, and participant management. Designed with a modern interface and robust authentication, FaceLink ensures privacy, scalability, and a smooth user experience across all devices.
- Secure login using multiple authentication methods
- Manage and update user profile information
- Role-based access control for hosts, participants, and administrators
- Start instant meetings with a single click
- Unique meeting IDs are generated for enhanced privacy
- Meeting recording
- Emoji reactions 😄🔥👏
- Screen sharing 🖥️
- Mute/unmute audio 🎙️
- Sound controls
- Grid layout and participant list views
- Individual participant management:
- Pin participants 📌
- Mute/unmute users
- Block participants 🚫
- Allow or restrict video sharing
- Schedule meetings by selecting date and time
- View upcoming meetings in a dedicated section
- Share meeting links or start meetings instantly
- View a complete list of past meetings with timestamps
- Access and replay recorded meetings for review and reference
- Personal meeting room with a unique, shareable meeting link
- Join meetings instantly using a shared meeting link
- Real-time interactions with strong security and data integrity
- Seamless experience across desktops, tablets, and smartphones
- Next.js • React • TypeScript • Clerk Authentication • Stream SDK • Tailwind CSS • Shadcn/UI
Challenge:
Managing real-time participant states (mute, video toggle, screen share, reactions) across multiple users without UI lag or inconsistencies.
Solution:
Leveraged Stream SDK’s event-driven architecture and WebSocket-based real-time updates. Implemented proper state subscriptions and cleanup in React lifecycle hooks to prevent memory leaks and stale state issues.
Challenge:
Ensuring that only hosts could perform privileged actions like muting others, blocking users, or ending meetings.
Solution:
Integrated Clerk authentication with role metadata and enforced role validation both on the frontend UI level and backend logic. Sensitive actions are conditionally rendered and validated before execution.
Challenge:
Managing meeting states (scheduled, live, completed, recorded) while maintaining accurate history and recordings.
Solution:
Designed structured meeting schemas and status-based logic. Implemented clear lifecycle transitions (Scheduled → Live → Completed → Recorded) and synced them with Stream APIs for consistency.
- Chose Stream SDK over building custom WebRTC infrastructure to accelerate development and focus on product experience.
- Used Clerk instead of custom JWT implementation to ensure security best practices.
- Prioritized modular UI components to maintain scalability over rapid prototyping shortcuts.
- Introduce Redis for distributed meeting state caching.
- Add horizontal scaling for real-time services.
- Implement AI-powered meeting transcription.
- Add rate limiting and abuse detection.
Because meetings should be simple, secure, and seamless.
FaceLink removes friction from virtual collaboration with real-time performance, strong authentication, and intuitive controls — so teams can focus on conversations, not complications.