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Tracking the online/offline status of users and devices is called ‘presence.’ It’s a powerful tool for building chat rooms, multiplayer gaming, machine-to-machine communication, and sensor networks to name a few.
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to implement presence user detection functionality into your application in 6 easy steps.
And huzzah! You’re off and running with a simple presence application!
In the video below, Stephen and Tomomi walks you through the process step-by-step. If you want to follow along, check out our Presence Quick Start Tutorial for the code from the video, and use your favorite text editor and the JavaScript console.
Building Real-time Device and User Detection with Presence from PubNub on Vimeo.
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