Native Push Notifications Support for NodeBB
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Our relationship with push notifications has been rather circuitous…
- First Andrew (psychobunny) tried plain desktop notifications via the Notification API (that’s the desktop notifications plugin), but notification delivery stopped when you closed your browser.
- Then I wrote the PushBullet plugin, but they went from free to paid and that went out the window
- Around that time I wrote the Firebase plugin, which was a dead end because there was no iOS support.
- I then wrote the ntfy plugin, which works really well, but does rely on a freemium third-party service and app (written by @binwiederhier@discuss.ntfy.sh)
Thanks to some recent discussion from crazycells and bh4-tech, I learned that the Push API had reached general availability across most modern browsers. In fact, this actually happened over a year ago, so compatibility should be even better.
So I set about working on yet another push notifications plugin, hopefully for the last time, and this time using the native Push API on the client-side.
To enable them, simply navigate over to the “Push Notifications” menu item in your user profile, and flip the switch.
So, let’s dogfood! I de-activated the ntfy plugin on this site and activated the web-push plugin so you can try it out right now.
The plugin is in the proof-of-concept phase, so there might (read: most definitely will be) issues. Please let me know any you find here.
Hi. Just to be certain, push notifications still don’t work on iOS under NodeBB 4.4.4 with nodebb-plugin-web-push 0.7.4, right?
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D1re_W0lf mmm it should work but we don’t have Apple devices to test against…
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D1re_W0lf Although I don’t have an iOS device, but according to docs,on iOS web push notifications work on only those sites which have been added to home screen. So, add this site to home screen and check after few hours.
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D1re_W0lf Although I don’t have an iOS device, but according to docs,on iOS web push notifications work on only those sites which have been added to home screen. So, add this site to home screen and check after few hours.
bh4-tech that’s good to know, thank you!
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I checked logs: Sever start with log:
info: [plugins/web-push] VAPID keys OK.Nodebb: 4.4.3 Plugin: nodebb-plugin-web-push 0.7.4
it works on: Desktop + Android But I don’t have any permission request popup to enable notifications for Nodebb on Safari Mobile and iOS I tried also with homescreen app in iOS
Can anyone help me? julian maybe it is worth to check this behavior in Browserstack?
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Paweł said in Native Push Notifications Support for NodeBB: > julian maybe it is worth to check this behavior in Browserstack?
Yes, this is a good idea
does browser stack have support for push notifications? -
julian it does
Can I test push notifications for my mobile app on BrowserStack? | BrowserStack
Yes! Support for Push Notifications is now enabled on BrowserStack devices for you to be able to test the Push Notification scenarios in your app. For Push N...
BrowserStack (www.browserstack.com)
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Yes Browserstack use real devices - https://www.browserstack.com/guide/test-push-notifications-on-ios-devices
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bh4-tech I’ll try that. Thank you.
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bh4-tech Hi gain. Apologies for the long delay in replaying. I tried to activate on my iPhone without any luck. I used Safari, Chrome, and Vivaldi both directly and to “install” as a PWA, but none of it worked.
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D1re_W0lf does it work if you add the app to the home screen?
