How to
Virtual Events
How to Build Chat for Virtual Events
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.
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.
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.
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.
PubNub portal
Creating Keys
Follow this how-to on creating keys in the Admin Portal to connect your application to the PubNub network.
PubNub portal
Enabling Files
Follow this how-to on enabling Files in the Admin Portal to upload and share files.
PubNub portal
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.
Push Notifications
Push Notifications
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.