We have designed the OpenTok JavaScript library to be easy for all JavaScript developers to use. But the jQuery OpenTok plugin, created by jQuery developer Jose Torres, could make it even easier to use OpenTok audio-video sessions in your web-based apps.

The plugin is hosted at github.com:

https://github.com/jmtorres/jquery-opentok

Using the jQuery plugin, you can fully integrate OpenTok into your jQuery-based apps.

To use the plug-in, include the OpenTok, jQuery, and jquery.opentok scripts in your HTML page:

I have began to create a set of OpenTok JavaScript plugins to provide boilerplate solutions for some common use cases.

The first plugin is the _OT.widget, which makes it simple to create a videochat widget similar to the HTML embed widget seen here.