Tools, Prerequisites, and Sample Assets

Before Course 2, take a few minutes to set up the account and assets you will use in both coding exercises.

You will first prepare your Vonage account details, then confirm your Video API application credentials, and finally review the sample server/client assets used throughout this path.

What to have ready

  • A Vonage developer account.
  • Access to the Vonage Dashboard to create or review your Video API application.
  • Vonage API Key and API Secret.
  • Video API Application ID.
  • Private key (private.key or PRIVATE_KEY64) for server-side token generation.
  • A place to save your backend base URL after deployment.

Setup steps and sample assets

If you have not created a Video API application yet, follow:

To preview the exact server/client assets used in this path, see:

That guide walks you through the two assets you will rely on in practice:

  • the Vonage Video Learning Server (Node.js) deployment flow,
  • the Basic Video Chat front-end sample run in StackBlitz.

How this connects to Course 2

Course 2 starts the hands-on implementation flow: backend deployment first, frontend integration next, then a working one-on-one room with live media.

If these setup pieces are ready now, you can focus on the actual session flow instead of stopping for account configuration in the middle of the exercises.

Checkpoint

  • You can access your account and dashboard without setup blockers.
  • You know where your app credentials and private key are.
  • You know token generation and secrets stay server-side.
  • You are ready to move into backend deployment.

For future reference