Multi-user enabling an app in 30 lines of code

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One of the best things about Pusher is how you can add realtime interactive functionality to existing application with very little effort. Love how I could make this Xylophone app j.mp/Wwi17R originally by @soundstep multiplayer in 30 lines of code j.mp/T9q1M6— Phil Leggetter (@leggetter) January 30, 2013 Here’s how I converted a very cool Magical


Add Realtime to PhoneGap for Android

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We’ve a whole host of client and server libraries for various technologies. This means no matter your technology of choice there’s an option for you when using Pusher in your app. Whilst having a library and quality documentation are key aspects when using a service sometimes it’s also nice to have a getting started project


A realtime charity thermometer for GiveCamp UK

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I’m excited about attending GiveCamp UK this weekend. As well as contributing by giving all attendees 3 months free access to our Startup plan I hope to help out with development where I can. I also hope that a few of the teams will decide to add some cool realtime user engaging functionality to the


Testing your integration with the Pusher JavaScript Library

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With so many of us (developers) involved in agile, TDD, BDD and continuous integration and delivery it’s no surprise that we’ve had a few questions posed of us about testing best practices and one question in particular caught my attention and got me thinking about how to test a web apps integration with the Pusher


Adding a real-time “Who’s shopping?” widget to an ASP.NET Web App

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In our last ASP.NET post, The easiest way to add real-time functionality to an ASP.NET e-commerce application, I demonstrated how to add realtime stock level updates and notifications to an ASP.NET e-commerce application. In this post I’m going to show how to add a “Who’s shopping?” widget to the same application. The purpose of this


Improving the experience for users with flaky connections

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Pusher has a rich JavaScript client that handles the nitty gritty of WebSocket connections. Today, we are releasing a new version. It emits events to expose the connection’s status. Optionally, it lets you or your users explicitly open and close the socket. With this functionality, you can tell your users whether the realtime features of


The easiest way to add real-time functionality to an ASP.NET e-commerce application

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While adding realtime functionality to ASP.NET applications has often seemed difficult due to the connection limitations of the IIS platform, it can actually be achieved fairly easily by offloading this component to third party services like Pusher. In this series of posts, I’ll get you started with this exciting technology through a number of hands-on


Backbone.js, now real time with Pusher

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This tutorial was written by Micheil Smith Recently there have been a number of frameworks developed that allow you to add extra structure to your code when building rich javascript-heavy applications. These frameworks often achieve this structure by adding in layers of Models, Controllers, Views, and Events, most of the time performing synchronisation between the


Implementing a realtime encoding dashboard with Pusher

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Guest author Vivien, from our sister product Panda, talks about how they used Pusher in their awesome new dashboard. Panda makes it easy to add video encoding to your app. We have recently rolled out a new status dashboard for our users that shows the progress of videos. Because we use Pusher extensively, we thought


Adding private channels to pusher

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Adding private channels to pusher Private channels allow you to ensure that, for specific channels, the user connections to the these channels are authorized. This has been a highly requested feature, and we’re really pleased to be releasing it today. Note that private channels are not required for all applications. For example, on a shopping