Go Go Chat App Tutorial: Build a Real-time Chat In this tutorial we'll be building a chat app using Go, JavaScript and Scaledrone realtime messaging platform. You can find the full source from GitHub. Structure of the project Our tutorial will be
Tutorials React Native Maps Tutorial: Find My Friends In this tutorial, we're going to be building a "Find My Friends"-like app using React Native, react-native-maps and the Scaledrone React Native client. You can find the full source code
Product Updates JavaScript Library Updates Over the past few weeks, we have been making updates to the JavaScript library. These improvements will make your life easier when integrating with Scaledrone. All of the changes are backwards compatible, offering
Tutorials Facebook Pixel Tracking Across Multiple Domains A typical situation for a SaaS website is to have your public web on www.companyname.com and have your actual app on app.companyname.com. This approach makes sense for many best
Android Android Chat Tutorial: Building A Realtime Messaging App In this tutorial, we'll create a real-time group chat for Android using the Scaledrone Java API Client. The functionality will closely resemble that of popular messaging apps like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and Signal.
Tutorials Automated UI testing with Nightmare At Scaledrone we put a heavy emphasis on testing. While our backend is well tested, the website has been lacking in testing for a while. In past projects, we have used Capybara for
Product Updates New Authentication Option We've added a new authentication option to your Scaledrone channels. The new option is half-way between the current no-authentication and full-authentication options. The new authentication option requires users to authenticate themselves for publishing
Tutorials GraphQL Tutorial: Using Github GraphQL API with Node.js As of API v4 Github is using GraphQL as a query language for their API. This gives the users more power and flexibility to ask exactly what they need from the API (it
WebRTC WebRTC Chat Tutorial This tutorial will teach you: The basics of WebRTC How to create a 1-on-1 text chat where users can enter their username and be assigned a random emoji avatar How to use RTCDataChannel
WebRTC WebRTC Tutorial: Simple video chat This tutorial will teach you: The basics of WebRTC How to create a 1on1 video chat How to use Scaledrone for signaling so that no server coding is needed Check out the live
Go Creating an API Client in Go When consuming a REST API it's a good practice to write an API Client (API Wrapper) for yourself or your own REST API, so other users could more easily access it. Fortunately, Go
Tutorials Real-time notifications from systemd to Slack We released the current version of Scaledrone over two years ago in Fall 2014. We were ramping up, trying to make a name for ourselves and got some sizeable customers on board. As
Tutorials JavaScript chat room tutorial We're going to be building a real-time JavaScript chat room similar to Twitch.tv's chat using JavaScript and Scaledrone realtime messaging service. The app is going to be using Websockets on modern browsers
Handling EU VAT for Stripe and Braintree Handling VAT taxation is something all European SaaS startups and companies have to go through at some point. Some time ago ScaleDrone became VAT eligible and we decided to go through the hassle
Node.js From Node.js to Go Last month Scaledrone migrated all websocket servers from Node.js to Go. We are a realtime messaging company so using the best possible websocket solution is vital to us. We started playing around
Product Updates Planned Server Transfer on April 13th, 2016 On Wednesday April 16th, 2016 16:00 UTC ScaleDrone is planning on replacing all our current Websocket servers with newer ones. The new servers are completely rewritten from the ground up and will
6 Use Cases For Real-time Data Real-time data is no longer a luxury, but neccessity for making the user feel engaged and in control. Here are some examples of how you can use it on your own site. 1.
Product Updates Scaledrone's new CDN server We are glad to announce that Scaledrone now uses CloudFront CDN which greatly improves the speed of loading the scaledrone.min.js asset. For this to take effect please change the href location
