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All about chat app development, from high-level considerations to the nuts and bolts of chat features.

Building Responsive UI for Web and Mobile Apps
ChatJun 4, 2013

Building Responsive UI for Web and Mobile Apps

This tutorial shows you how to build responsive UI, this this case for a chat application. We'll also show you how to make your desktop app, mobile.
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Michael Carroll
Chatroom Features-User Detection, Persistence, Rooms
ChatMay 29, 2013

Chatroom Features-User Detection, Persistence, Rooms

This tutorial shows how to add chatroom features including user detection with presence, message persistence and multiple chatrooms.
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Michael Carroll
How to Build a JavaScript Simple Chat App with No Backend
ChatMay 24, 2013

How to Build a JavaScript Simple Chat App with No Backend

This tutorial walks you through building a basic chatroom layout, publish and receiving messages, and setting up jQuery mobile for simple chat.
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Michael Carroll
Build a Fully-Featured Group Chat App w/No Backend
ChatMay 17, 2013

Build a Fully-Featured Group Chat App w/No Backend

This tutorial (broken into 4 parts) shows you how to build a fully-featured web and mobile group chat app with JavaScript.
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Michael Carroll
Mobile and Web HTML5 Chat with Channel Presence
ChatSep 13, 2012

Mobile and Web HTML5 Chat with Channel Presence

This blog post shows you how to build a HTML5 chat app for both web and mobile, that also includes a chat user buddy list using Presence.
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Stephen Blum
Building a PubNub-Powered Chat App with Sencha Touch 2 | PubNub
ChatJun 8, 2012

Building a PubNub-Powered Chat App with Sencha Touch 2 | PubNub

Sencha Touch 2 is a new framework for building super slick mobile applications. I decided to put on my mobile dev hat on and experience it for myself. And o
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Stephen Blum
HTML5 Mobile Chat Easily with jQuery | PubNub
ChatMar 14, 2012

HTML5 Mobile Chat Easily with jQuery | PubNub

This source code and tutorial walks you through how to build a simple HTML5 mobile chat application with jQuery.
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Michael Carroll
Build Real-time Chat Apps in 10 Lines of Code
ChatMar 19, 2011

Build Real-time Chat Apps in 10 Lines of Code

How to build real-time chat apps in 10 lines of JavaScript with user detection and efficient messaging.
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Stephen Blum