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Build a Realtime Chat App in 5 Minutes with PocketBase Cloud + React
Realtime features usually mean one of two things: paying for Firebase, or wrestling with WebSocket servers at 2 AM. Today we're doing neither.
We're going to build a live chat app where messages appear instantly across all connected browsers — using PocketBase Cloud for the backend and React for the frontend. No servers to configure, no WebSocket code to write. PocketBase handles realtime over Server-Sent Events (SSE) , and the JS SDK wraps it in one function call.
Total time: about 5...
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