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Tutorials, demos, and code walkthroughs for a wide variety of real-time web, mobile, and IoT projects.

BuildSep 22, 2014

Tessel + PubNub Power IoT in 4 Lines of JavaScript

Power the Internet of Things in 4 Lines of JavaScript with Tessel and PubNub. Tessel is a small, powerful microcontroller that runs entirely on JavaScript.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildSep 18, 2014

Emulating a Secure API Server in a Chrome Web Browser

How to run a server in a web browser. In this case, we’ll write the server in JavaScript on the front-end. The server handles permissions for authorization.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 29, 2014

IoT Demos: iBeacon, Arduino, Raspberry Pi, MQTT

When you intern at PubNub, you’re not running errands, getting your manager coffee, or scrubbing fridges. No, you’re building amazing applications and PubNub evangelism and IoT demos that harness the power of the PubNub Data Stream Network. You’re helping customers be successful with...
Chandler Mayo
Chandler Mayo
Solution Engineer, PubNub
BuildAug 28, 2014

How to Create an App Like Snapchat

Building a DIY Snapchat isn’t as hard as you’d think. In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to capture an image and send it in real time to a recipient using JavaScript. As a rule of thumb, if you can represent data as a JSON object or string, you can send it with PubNub Data Streams....
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 28, 2014

Bidirectional Push Notifications for Large Message Payloads

This blog post looks at three mobile push notification methods with tutorials: Google Cloud Messaging, Apple Push Notification Services, and PubNub Data Streams.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
BuildAug 27, 2014

Blazing Fast Remote Signaling for Raspberry Pi and Arduino

This tutorial shows you how to connect a Raspberry Pi or Arduino to PubNub for the purpose of blazing fast and reliable remote signaling for embedded IoT.

Developer Relations Team
Developer Relations Team
BuildAug 26, 2014

Real-time Collaboration Sync with Parse API and PubNub

By combining the Parse API with PubNub Data Streams you can obtain the ultimate developer toolkit powerful enough to scale your successful mobile app to billions of users. Using the Parse API for user management with large file storage and PubNub for data streams, you can  power live user communication...
Stephen Blum
Stephen Blum
CTO, PubNub
BuildAug 26, 2014

Get Redis Replication Right: Multi Data Center Support

This tutorial walks you through a proof-of-concept for global, multi data center Redis replication of data using PubNub and NodeJS. We’re continuing to grow our collection of persistence adapters for PubNub using Node.JS. Redis replication can be difficult due to TCP windowing and other Kernal...
Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll
BuildAug 20, 2014

AngularJS + Docco: Walkthrough of PubNub’s AngularJS Library

We’re documenting our AngularJS SDK for PubNub with Docco. AngularJS Docco makes is simple, clean, and informational for documentation.

Michael Carroll
Michael Carroll