blog/source/docs/messages_configuration.md

title: Configuring Messages with Whisper layout: docs

With Embark it's very easy to connect to messaging channels using Whisper. In this guide we'll discuss how to set everything up to add messaging support to our applications.

Configuration basics

By default, Embark will check our preferred communication configuration in the file config/communication.js. This file contains the preferred configuration for each environment, with default being the configuration that applies to every environment (for more information about environments, check out this guide. Each of these options can be individually overridden on a per environment basis.

Here's an example configuration:

module.exports = {
  default: {
    enabled: true,
    provider: 'whisper',
    available_providers: ['whisper']
  }
}

Available options:

Option	Type: default	Value
enabled	boolean: true/false	To enable or completely disable communication support
provider	string: whisper	Desired provider to automatically connect to in the dapp.
available_providers	array: ["whisper"]	List of communication platforms to be supported in the dapp. This will affect what's available with the EmbarkJS library in the dapp so if you don't need Whisper for example, removing it from this will considerably reduce the file size of the generated JS code.