PWA push notifications

danh

https://webpushtest.com/

A working ios pwa demo.

danh

whatwebcando.today
whatpwacando.today

Just found these two websites let me test push api on iPhone.

Safari won’t let me use push api, but as soon as I add the web to Home Screen, push noti just works right away.

crazycells

@danh said in PWA push notifications:

Ntfy is great but it requires users to download third party app. Works but not ideal.

I agree.

But I guess, ideally, we would have all three plugins, ntfy, firebase and, ios-counterpart of the firebase... So, users can decide which one to use...

we are waiting for ios notification plugin, because we have nearly a 50-50 ratio of ios to android users... so we cannot activate it for half but not the rest, they would react ... but definitely would not mind paying for firebase and ios-counterpart plugin...

crazycells

@danh said in PWA push notifications:

Hi @julian, I'm planning to work on one anyway.

great to hear this
please let me know when it is ready to test, so I can start testing

phenomlab

@crazycells I'd also be interested in this

julian

@phenomlab @danh @crazycells ok, will open source the code later today.

Firebase is just the backend platform/service. You'll be able to use it to send push notifications iOS on it now (hopefully)

phenomlab

@julian Correct, but it would be nice to have a bundled solution that does not reply on third parties.

julian

@phenomlab a bundled solution would be using browser based push notifications, which are less reliable, unfortunately.

The existing desktop notifications plugin uses browser notifications

bh4 tech

@julian Did you open source the code? If available on github, please provide the repo link

bh4 tech

@julian Any updates?

julian

@bh4-tech not yet, sorry. I will take a look tomorrow during business hours.

julian

@bh4-tech @crazycells The plugin has now been open sourced.

https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-firebase

There is no guarantee that it works as intended, and given that the code is 4 years old, it likely will need some updates to work with v3.x

crazycells

@julian thanks a bunch @julian ... on an unrelated note, I do not get notification on the forum or on ntfy when you tag me anymore... I believe it is related to what @baris wrote here before... https://community.nodebb.org/message/71603

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB/issues/12521

julian

@crazycells Thanks for the reminder. I'll take a look.

Bejan

I'm also interested in pwa with push notifications working on android and iOS.

bh4 tech

@Bejan The push notification plugin has already been open sourced https://community.nodebb.org/post/99553 by @julian

bh4 tech

@oplik0 Noticed that you have cloned the repository. Are you planning to make it compatible with current version of NodeBB?
Asking this because I installed the plugin and upon opening its admin page got (console) error- Cannot find module './plugins/firebase'. The UI for configuration also does not load.

bh4 tech

@oplik0 Any plans?

oplik0

@bh4-tech yes, sorry for late response, I was just quite busy the last few weeks I'm planning to make the plugin work, but sadly it'll need a bit more work than just making it compatible with current NodeBB version as it's using a deprecated firebase API that's going to stop working this June...

And it's doing that because the new API requires a bit more setup to work... So this will need to be implemented.

I'll probably start working on it mid-June, once this semester ends for me, since as I mentioned I'm a bit too busy right now.

bh4 tech

@oplik0 Thanks for the clarification, take your time