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So Twilio's SDK counts, but Jitsi's doesn't because ...? You can build custom interfaces with all your requested features with that too.

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The difference in the ability of a developer to modify an open source software product (think: Gimp or Jitsi Meet) to suit their needs versus using a platform SDK that is designed to provide flexibility and to be used by devs is massive.

I spent some time looking at the Jitsi Meet source to confirm this assertion:

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/

It was quite clear that trying to use that code to execute my use case above would have been a very large waste of time, and quite possibly (given the lack of docs) a futile exercise.

This is the react example - https://meetrix.io/blog/webrtc/integrate-jitsi-meet-to-react...

These are the React features supported, including chat/conference,etc https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet/tree/master/react/featur...

https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet

I read and re-read this "examples" docs page several times:

https://github.com/jitsi/lib-jitsi-meet/blob/master/doc/API....

Hats off to anyone who can rapidly go from those docs to a deployed and working app. I was able to modify the repo linked in the parent to suit my needs in roughly 2-3 hours, much of which was install/setup.

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