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.
How to Create a Real-Time Delivery application
Real-Time

How to Create a Real-Time Delivery Application

For any delivery solution, the end user experience will depend on providing real-time updates on vehicle location, delivery time and delivery status
Real-Time

How to Build a Real-Time Counter of Active Users

This how-to will explain how to add a real-time counter of active users to any application, what to consider while building this type of feature, and how PubNub can make it easy.
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.