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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.
PubNub portal

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 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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Enabling Files

Follow this how-to on enabling Files in the Admin Portal to upload and share files.
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.
How to enable and configure PubNub Presence
PubNub portal

How to Enable and Configure PubNub Presence

Follow this how-to to enable Presence in the Admin Portal to track the online and offline status of users and devices in real time.
Push Notifications

Enabling APNs Mobile Push Notifications

Follow this how-to to enable PubNub's Mobile Push Gateway in the Admin Portal to send your iOS users push notifications and alerts using APNs.