How to

Chat

Building Chat: Dealing with timestamps

Follow this how-to to understand how to deal with and format timestamps for PubNub Chat applications.
Collaboration

Build Collaborative Applications

Follow this how-to and learn how you can build and power your real-time collaborative applications with PubNub.
Chat

How to Build a Telemedicine App

Read our complete guide on making your own telemedicine app. In this guide, you’ll learn about telemedicine, HIPPA, PHI, and solutions for building.
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Enabling Persistence

Follow this how-to to enable Persistence in the Admin Portal to persist all messages as they're published.
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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.
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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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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.