Learn How to Code Video Games: A Beginner's Guide

Video game development is a unique field that lets you combine your passion for gaming with technical skills, using your imagination to create wonderful, immersive experiences for gamers to enjoy. As a video game coder, you can contribute to projects ... more

How to Use WhatsApp Reply Context with Content API and Twilio Sync

If you have multiple departments and use cases running through a single WhatsApp sender and your application needs help understanding which message your customer is replying to, this post is for you. In this tutorial, you will learn how to use the Reply ... more

Integrate Two-Factor Authentication into a Laravel Application with Laravel Breeze, Livewire, Alpine.js, and Twilio Verify

Real world applications require authentication, such as passwords, to secure them and restrict access to authenticated users only. Two Factor Authentication (2FA) goes even further by adding an extra layer of security to your regular authentication system, ... more

Create a WhatsApp Bot to Discover Restaurants using Twilio and Node.js

WhatsApp is one of the most widely used messaging platforms globally, and developing a bot for WhatsApp can offer a powerful means of engaging customers and improving service.. This tutorial will demonstrate how to develop a bot that allows users to ... more

How to Fine-Tune an OpenAI ML Model with Node.js

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, offers a variety of Machine Learning models developers can use with different capabilities and price points. Their API lets developers interface with the models, adding features like text completion, code completion, text ... more

How to Build an Eco-friendly Reminder Service with Twilio SMS

In this article, you will create a subscription-based Eco Friendly Reminder Service Application with Twilio for Earth Day using Flask for the backend, React for the frontend and the Twilio SMS API for sending messages. This application is aimed to help ... more

Learn How to Code: A Beginner's Guide

Learning how to code can be challenging, and getting started may seem overwhelming. But Twilio is here to help. We’ve put together this guide to get you started on the right foot. We’ll take you step by step from where to begin, through the essential ... more

How to Implement 2FA with Twilio Verify in Node

In today's digital world, security is paramount, and two-factor authentication (2FA) is becoming increasingly important for securing user accounts. Two-factor authentication provides an additional layer of security beyond just a username and password, ... more

How to build a stock screener with Danfo.js and Twilio Programmable Messaging

In this tutorial, you will learn how to build a stock screener application capable of detecting stock breakouts in stocks listed on the S&P 500 index. In stock trading, a breakout is when a stock's price breaks through a support or resistance level. ... more

OpenAI Meets Twilio Flex: Creating Powerful Customer Engagement with GPT-4 and the AI Tools Flex Plugin

Are you looking for a way to integrate Artificial Intelligence into your Twilio Flex contact center? You aren’t alone, and I’ve got you covered. More and more businesses are looking to enhance their customer service experience, and we are being asked ... more

Baby/!Baby: Building a Twilio SMS/MMS Autoresponder with Serverless and Airtable

As I write this, my wife is 39 weeks pregnant. Our first child could come any day! It’s a mix of frantically getting ready and impatiently waiting (as I’m sure many parents can understand). One constant among all of this has been an influx of texts and ... more

Develop webhooks locally using Tailscale Funnel

Webhooks are a way to be notified by an external service when an event has occurred. Instead of you sending an HTTP request to that service, the service sends an HTTP request to your public web service. This way, you can respond to the event in real-time. ... more

How to Build a Monitoring Camera with Raspberry Pi and Twilio Programmable Video

You may want to keep an eye on something when far away from it. Nowadays, monitoring cameras can help you do that, but what if you could build your own and make it accessible over the internet whenever you wanted? In this tutorial, you will learn how ... more

Build a Cross-Platform Desktop Application With Rust Using Tauri

The plethora of options available for building software applications is a testament to how far the software development industry has come. The area of desktop application development is no exception. For every Javascript enthusiast, there's Electron. ... more

Integrate OpenAI's ChatGPT with Twilio Programmable Voice and Functions

Why talk to one robot when you can talk to three? Using ChatGPT to power an interactive voice chatbot is not just a novelty, it can be a way to get useful business intelligence information while reserving dedicated, expensive, and single-threaded human ... more

Validate phone numbers in a Google Sheet with Twilio Lookup

If you have phone numbers stored in a Google Sheet, you might want an easy way to validate that those numbers are real. Luckily the Twilio Lookup API has free formatting and validation functionality and can easily integrate with Google Sheets using Google's ... more

Build a WhatsApp E-Commerce Chatbot with NLP.js, Twilio Functions, Airtable, and PayPal

Introduction In this tutorial, you will learn how to build and run a serverless e-commerce Whatsapp chatbot application on your local machine that allows users to buy t-shirts in a fictitious virtual store. To build this chatbot application, you will ... more

Enabling VoIP calls on Twilio Flex

As businesses increasingly move towards remote work and virtual collaboration, the ability to make high-quality voice and video calls over the internet is more important than ever. Twilio Flex, a cloud-based contact center platform, offers an intuitive ... more

Introducing Twilio’s OpenAPI Specification GA

Today, we are thrilled to share the news that we have officially open-sourced the OpenAPI specification for every Twilio API. As a commitment to supporting and streamlining the development process for our users, we have long provided helper libraries ... more

How to Send a vCard with Twilio SMS and Node.js

Enhance your customer's experience by simplifying their contact with your business. Sending a vCard, which is an electronic contact card in a standardized file format known as VCF, is a convenient way to share your business information. With vCards, ... more

How to Send a vCard with Twilio WhatsApp and Node.js

Enhance your customers' interactions with your business and improve their overall experience by sending them vCards. vCards are an electronic contact card in the standardized VCF file format. By using vCards, your customers can seamlessly import your ... more

Text an AI Assistant with GPT-3 using AWS Lambda and Twilio

Are you tired of scrolling through countless web pages to find the information you need? Do you wish there was an easier way to access accurate and relevant answers to your questions? Well, look no further! This tutorial shows you how to use Twilio and ... more

How to View Your Twilio Account Usage Using Laravel

Twilio provides an API to retrieve actions made by your Twilio account and to filter them by both time and category. Using that API, in this tutorial, you’re going to learn how to build a small analytics dashboard for your Laravel application. Let's ... more

Automatic Instrumentation of Containerized .NET Applications With OpenTelemetry

If you're running containerized .NET applications without telemetry instrumentation, adding it later can be difficult and time-consuming. However, OpenTelemetry provides an automated way to add instrumentation without the need for code changes or manual ... more

Secure Your Web Application With Laravel Socialite

Authentication is a very interesting subject as it concerns web apps, because of the numerous options available and is also critical because of the bad actors and the harm they can do. Choosing the best authentication strategy depends on what you need ... more

Build a cross-platform desktop application with Go and Wails

Electron was (and still is) a big hit for a number of reasons. First, its cross-platform functionality enables developers to support Linux, Windows, and macOS from a single codebase. On top of that, it has a lean learning curve for developers familiar ... more

Getting the Most Out of Your Twilio Voice Project

Twilio Voice handles 50+ billion call minutes a year—powering everything from contact centers to notifications to interactive voice responses (IVR). That’s why millions of developers turn to Twilio to build reliable communications into their applications. ... more

Introducing Twilio For Node.js v4

Twilio Node 4 has been released! It includes several improvements and features including improved security, better performance, and new functionality to make it easier to use. You can install it today with npm via npm install twilio-node@latest or download ... more

Integrate Twilio Flex with Discord

In recent years, Discord has become the central messaging platform for communities especially with the help of Discord bots. Through Discords extensive API, developers are able to build robust bots that are capable of various actions such as automating ... more

Build a Photo Guest Book With WhatsApp, Node.js and Twilio

Birthday parties, weddings, anniversaries, and other social events are always great gatherings where we create memories that last a lifetime. At these events, everyone is a photographer who tries to capture the best moments on their phone and possibly ... more