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Timo K. d84dcc75de [SDK] Keep a value that reaches reconcile as its loop winds down
The loop that drives `scope.reconcile` was marked as running until the
promise of its last run had settled, which is a few microtasks after the
loop itself had checked for new values. A value arriving in that window
found the loop "running", was left to it, and was never processed: a
connection appearing at that moment would never get its publisher.

The flag is now cleared the moment the loop ends, so such a value starts
a new loop. The regression test drives the window microtask by microtask.
2026-10-13 16:13:47 +02:00
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MatrixRTC SDK (EXPERIMENTAL)

@element-hq/matrixrtc-sdk is the call model under Element Call, on its own: MatrixRTC memberships and transports, media connections, publishing, E2EE keys and the media of every member, as observables. It has no UI. Element Call's own CallViewModel is meant to become one consumer of it. The design is in SdkArchitecture.md, the migration from the view model in SdkMigration.md. Media goes through one media backend behind MediaBackend; LiveKit, under src/media-backend/livekit/, is the only one today and the only place that imports livekit-client.

Status: first implementation. createMatrixRTCClient joins the session, connects to the transport, publishes the local media and exposes every member's media; the development harness and its e2e tests in playwright/sdk drive it, and Element Call's own CallViewModel is built on it. It depends on nothing in Element Call's src/.

Using it

import {
  createMatrixRTCClient,
  E2eeType,
  MatrixRTCMode,
  ObservableScope,
} from "@element-hq/matrixrtc-sdk";

const scope = new ObservableScope();
const rtcClient = createMatrixRTCClient(
  scope,
  client, // a matrix-js-sdk MatrixClient, logged in and syncing
  room, // the matrix-js-sdk Room, from client.getRoom() once the join has synced
  {
    encryptionSystem: { kind: E2eeType.PER_PARTICIPANT },
    matrixRTCMode: MatrixRTCMode.Compatibility,
    publish: [{ source: "microphone" }, { source: "camera" }],
  },
);
rtcClient.join();

rtcClient.remoteMembers$.subscribe((members) => {
  // each member has displayName$, tracks$ and more; a media track is rendered
  // by handing it a <video> or <audio> element: track.attach(element)
});

// later
rtcClient.leave();
scope.end();

dev/main.ts is this example as a working page.

Development

Everything runs from the repository root. This directory is a pnpm project of its own only so that a host can install it as a git dependency (see pnpm-workspace.yaml).

pnpm dev:sdk              # the harness, https://localhost:3002
pnpm build:sdk            # dist/matrixrtc-sdk.js and dist/types
pnpm test:playwright playwright/sdk   # needs `pnpm backend`

Installing

pnpm add github:element-hq/element-call#<ref>&path:/sdk

The host supplies matrix-js-sdk, livekit-client and rxjs; the build leaves them external.