PWA push notifications

crazycells

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.

GitHub - NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-firebase: Firebase Integration for NodeBB

Firebase Integration for NodeBB. Contribute to NodeBB/nodebb-plugin-firebase development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub (github.com)

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

user mentions in chat rooms not working · Issue #12521 · NodeBB/NodeBB

// on master matches [ '@baris' ] after slugify [ 'baris' ] // on activitypub branch matches [ '@baris' ] after slugify [ '@baris' ] After that mentions plugin can't find a userslug for @baris and no notification is sent.

GitHub (github.com)

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

bh4 tech

@oplik0 Any updates about the plugin?

bh4 tech

@oplik0 Any updates?

julian

@bh4-tech any reason why using ntfy won't work for you?