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Virtual events need chat to keep users engaged, but it's often a challenge to build a chat solution that works at scale and can handle the network load surges that occur during popular events. As a developer, you need to select a robust backend API provider capable of transmitting and receiving the high volume of messages that your viewers and participants generate.

If your team is developing a cross-platform application you have a number of options to choose from but whichever approach you take, from web-only to cross-platform frameworks, PubNub can easily incorporate chat into your app.

Read our complete guide to build a chat app using HTML, CSS, Vue, and JS. Read this and our other information building interactive chat apps.

For any delivery solution, the end user experience will depend on providing real-time updates on vehicle location, delivery time and delivery status

This how-to will explain how to add a real-time counter of active users to any application, what to consider while building this type of feature, and how PubNub can make it easy.

Follow this how-to to learn more about how you can leverage push notifications in your application to better keep your users engaged and informed.

This how-to will explain real-time geolocation services for developers, what to consider while building geolocation features, and how PubNub can make it easy to stream and use real-time location data.

Learn how to develop an IoT solution with PubNub, allowing you to monitor and control a global fleet of IoT devices in real-time

Follow this how-to to enable PubNub's Mobile Push Gateway in the Admin Portal to send your iOS users push notifications and alerts using APNs.