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In this guide we’ll discuss how to set everything up to add messaging support to our applications.</p> 774 <h2 id="Configuration-basics"><a href="#Configuration-basics" class="headerlink" title="Configuration basics"></a>Configuration basics</h2><p>By default, Embark will check our preferred communication configuration in the file <code>config/communication.js</code>. This file contains the preferred configuration for each environment, with <code>default</code> being the configuration that applies to every environment (for more information about environments, check out <a href="/docs/environments.html">this guide</a>. Each of these options can be individually overridden on a per environment basis.</p> 775 <p>Here’s an example configuration:</p> 776 <figure class="highlight plain"><table><tr><td class="code"><pre><span class="line">module.exports = {</span><br><span class="line"> default: {</span><br><span class="line"> enabled: true,</span><br><span class="line"> provider: 'whisper',</span><br><span class="line"> available_providers: ['whisper']</span><br><span class="line"> }</span><br><span class="line">}</span><br></pre></td></tr></table></figure> 777 778 <p>Available options:</p> 779 <table> 780 <thead> 781 <tr> 782 <th>Option</th> 783 <th>Type: <code>default</code></th> 784 <th>Value</th> 785 </tr> 786 </thead> 787 <tbody><tr> 788 <td><code>enabled</code></td> 789 <td>boolean: <code>true/false</code></td> 790 <td>To enable or completely disable communication support</td> 791 </tr> 792 <tr> 793 <td><code>provider</code></td> 794 <td>string: <code>whisper</code></td> 795 <td>Desired provider to 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