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title: Guides
description: "Step-by-step guides to building real-time apps with NoLag: chat, notifications, live dashboards, and IoT tracking."
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# Guides

End-to-end walkthroughs that build a working realtime feature from scratch. Each one uses the core connect, subscribe, and publish flow from the [Quick Start](/docs/getting-started).

## In this section

- [Building a Chat App](/docs/guides/chat-app) builds a realtime chat application from scratch.
- [Real-time Notifications](/docs/guides/notifications) builds a realtime notification system.
- [Live Dashboards](/docs/guides/dashboards) builds realtime dashboards and live data visualizations.
- [IoT & Tracking](/docs/guides/iot) builds IoT applications and realtime tracking systems.