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Gaming
How to Build Interactive 2d Chat Games
In this guide, we describe why you’d want to build a 2d game, types of 2d games, and tips for making your 2d games interactive, social, and engaging.
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PubNub portal
Enabling Persistence
Follow this how-to to enable Persistence in the Admin Portal to persist all messages as they're published.
Chat
How to Build Cross-Platform Chat Applications with PubNub
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.
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Chat
How to build a chat app using HTML, CSS, Vue, & JS
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.
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PubNub portal
Creating Keys
Follow this how-to on creating keys in the Admin Portal to connect your application to the PubNub network.
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PubNub portal
Enabling Files
Follow this how-to on enabling Files in the Admin Portal to upload and share files.
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Enabling Objects
Follow this how-to on enabling Objects in the Admin Portal to to store metadata for users, channels, and memberships without the need of setting up your own database.
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Geolocation
How to Explore Real-time Geolocation Solutions
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.
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IoT
How to develop an IoT solution with PubNub
Learn how to develop an IoT solution with PubNub, allowing you to monitor and control a global fleet of IoT devices in real-time