Repository of a plugin for BigBlueButton

Description

Display a word cloud formed with the words said in chat.

Next steps

• Option to enable and disable the plugin (right now it replaces the presentation area and you can't change it)
• Clear the word cloud when the chat is cleared or add an option for the presenter to do so
• Better way to start a new cloud (replace the command /cloud)
• Synchronize the cloud between all participants (at the moment each client renders its own cloud)
• Don't need to re-render the cloud every time a resize is triggered, this can be improved
• This plugin can become a bigger one: collect input from users (not only from chat, there are several options) and display them (not only as a word cloud, there are many ways to show data visually)

Building the Plugin

To build the plugin for production use, follow these steps:

cd $HOME/src/plugin-template
npm ci
npm run build-bundle

The above command will generate the dist folder, containing the bundled JavaScript file named <plugin-name>.js. This file can be hosted on any HTTPS server along with its manifest.json.

If you install the Plugin separated to the manifest, remember to change the javascriptEntrypointUrl in the manifest.json to the correct endpoint.

To use the plugin in BigBlueButton, send this parameter along in create call:

pluginManifests=[{"url":"<your-domain>/path/to/manifest.json"}]

Or additionally, you can add this same configuration in the .properties file from bbb-web in /usr/share/bbb-web/WEB-INF/classes/bigbluebutton.properties

Development mode

As for development mode (running this plugin from source), please, refer back to https://github.com/bigbluebutton/bigbluebutton-html-plugin-sdk section Running the Plugin from Source