Tutorials

In this tutorial, you’ll discover how to set up and build a simple standalone live-streaming chat application using the PubNub Chat SDK and Livepeer. With Livepeer and the PubNub Chat SDK combined you can create a feature-rich live streaming application with full scalability and low latency that is ready for production.

PubNub's Chat SDK is recommended for developers who want to create new chat applications or add in-app chat to existing applications. The SDK supports everything you need to develop chat, from simple message exchange to advanced features like quoting, unread message counts, and emoji reactions. PubNub also provides several CORE SDKs that are use-case agnostic and can be used to create any real-time solution, but this tutorial will focus on the CHAT SDK.

In this tutorial, you'll discover how to use PubNub to set up a simple chat application.

In this tutorial you’ll discover how to set up and use PubNub's Chat components to build a group chat application.

This tutorial will guide you through building a digital health application, showing how PubNub Chat Components can quickly create a professional looking, functional app. Please note that PubNub will discontinue support for Chat Components on January 1, 2025. They will remain open source and community-maintained but will no longer receive feature updates from PubNub.

This tutorial will guide you through creating a simple chat app using the flexible PubNub SDK: Sending and receiving chat messages, member presence and looking up past messages. NOTE: This tutorial predates the introduction of our dedicated CHAT SDKs; developers creating chat apps should use our CHAT SDKs which support JavaScript / Typescript, Unreal, Kotlin, Swift, and Unity.

In this tutorial, you’ll discover how to use PubNub to set up and power collaborative applications.

In this tutorial, you’ll discover how to build a geolocation tracking app that allows users to share locations and send messages in real-time, as well as integrate with ChatGPT to provide information about your location.

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a Live Auction and Marketplace app that allows users to create live auctions and bid in real-time.