How to

Collaboration

Build Collaborative Applications

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

Enabling Persistence

Follow this how-to to enable Persistence in the Admin Portal to persist all messages as they're published.
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.
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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.
How to IoT solution
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
Alexa Skills with PubNub Architecture
Collaboration

How to call PubNub from Alexa

Amazon’s Echo is the market leading smart speaker and we see an increasing number of customers want to integrate Alexa into their PubNub solution