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BuildJul 29, 2019
AngularJS Chat Tutorial (4/6): Chat Typing Indicators
This tutorial walks through building chat with our core pub/sub technology (and other PubNub features). We recently launched ChatEngine, a new framework for rapid chat development. Check out the ChatEngine AngularJS tutorial. → Welcome back to Part 4 of our PubNub series on how to build a complete chat...
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 29, 2019
Cognitive Capabilities: Intro to PubNub and IBM Watson APIs
An introduction to IBM Watson APIs and Functions, and an overview of the different APIs available to build cognition into your real-time apps.
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 29, 2019
Building a Trends and Patterns App with Watson Discovery
How to build an intelligent app that searches a database in real time to analyze and retrieve data based on a submitted question with IBM Watson Discovery and PubNub.
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 28, 2019
Analyze User Sentiment and Emotion in Real time: IBM Watson
IBM Watson provides a broad suite of APIs to allow you to build in language, speech, vision, and insight capabilities into your app. We’ve already built a couple tutorials with IBM Watson, including a language translator chat app that translates messages between 11 languages in real time, as well...
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 28, 2019
Add Geocoding, Mapping with Mapbox & PubNub BLOCKS
Enable real-time geocoding and mapping in an AngularJS web application with a modest 44-line PubNub JavaScript BLOCK and 73 lines of HTML/JS.
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 28, 2019
Add Turn-by-Turn Navigation with Mapbox Directions API
Mapbox Directions API provides a variety of navigation features for driving, cycling and walking, including turn-by-turn directions, traffic-aware routing, and ETA calculation. And with Mapbox, all your functionality is overlayed on one of their many beautiful vector maps. In this tutorial, we’ll...
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 28, 2019
Embed a Static Map and Update Geolocation with Mapbox
Mapbox is a flexible platform that provides a ton of awesome mapping and geolocation APIs. At PubNub, we love Mapbox because you can now build beautiful and interactive geolocation and tracking apps by integrating real-time functionality. With that, we’ve launched a number of Mapbox BLOCKS in our...
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 28, 2019
Multiplayer Gaming Basics Using Phaser – Occupancy Counter
How to build a JavaScript occupancy counter for multiplayer games that automatically updates a counter based on new users going online or offline.
Michael Carroll
BuildJul 28, 2019
Real-time Visualizations & Dashboards with Epoch and Python
There are a ton of dashboard and visualization tools out there – D3.js, EON and others, some of which you can find tutorials on right here at PubNub’s blog. In this tutorial, we’ll look at another option, Epoch, a general purpose real-time charting library for building beautiful, smooth,...