# Issues with Node-RED chatbot tutorial

**URL:** <https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issues-with-node-red-chatbot-tutorial/8511>\
**Category:** General\
**Created:** [1 March 2019 15:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issues-with-node-red-chatbot-tutorial/8511 "2019-03-01T15:41:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![nhar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f04885/32.png) [@nhar](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/nhar)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2019 15:41 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issues-with-node-red-chatbot-tutorial/8511/1 "2019-03-01T15:41:51Z")

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I'm following the chat assistant tutorial [here](https://developer.ibm.com/tutorials/cl-rtchat-app/) using their imported code. The application works fine, except that when a message is sent it just disappears - there's no conversation history and it's not possible to communicate between different windows.

The network and console panels from inspecting the page are both completely empty. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong? I'm not sure what the issue could be given that I'm using their exact code.

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![ukmoose](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex026/user_avatar/discourse.nodered.org/ukmoose/32/13_2.png) [@ukmoose](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/ukmoose)\
**Post date:** [1 March 2019 16:13 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/issues-with-node-red-chatbot-tutorial/8511/2 "2019-03-01T16:13:42Z")

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Start by adding debug nodes to your flow and seeing if they suggest anything. If not look at the logs