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How to add In-App notifications to any web app!

Sumit Saurabh on May 09, 2023

TL;DR In this article, you'll learn how to add a notification system to any app in just a few simple steps! The primary focus in making ...
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Abdulsalaam Noibi

Wow,what an amazing and well detailed article. I need to add a notification functionality on my blog project.

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Sumit Saurabh

Thanks, Abdulsalaam!

This could come-in really handy for you.

Do join our discord community if you get stuck anywhere! 🚀

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Hector Sosa

Incredibly detailed post! Great stuff! Definitely bookmarked! @sumit I've built a OSS tool for creating engaging screenshots with ease. Check it out and let me know what you think! Cheers!

github.com/ekqt/screenshot

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Sumit Saurabh

Thanks for those kind words, will check out what you’ve built for sure! 🚀

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Aim23

Looking great. As it has web component integration I would be able to use this in my VBasic Webapplication.
What I'm curious about is, how to integrate such notifications by differentiate by logged in users who are eligible to receive a certain notification which is meant for this user.
Are there any tutorials out?
All the best and thanks again for the fish!

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Nevo David

Great stuff Sumit!
Thank you for that

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Sumit Saurabh

Thank you for going through my article, Nevo! 😊

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solowon27

Simple and brilliant 👌

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Sumit Saurabh

That’s what I was aiming for!

Thanks for going through it, Solowon

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Arowolo Ebine

Great!!! Cool, it was really details and easy to understand.

Thanks bro

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Sumit Saurabh

Thank you for reading the article, Arowolo!

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zilvester

Works on iOS? Probably no as apple hates webapps because they dodge the app store and big apple can't profit..

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zilvester

But seriously Sumit, you have made a great how-to, and thanks... but does it work on iOS? What about the VAPID key and all that? Cheers

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Sumit Saurabh

Thanks for your generous words! Really appreciate it and sorry for replying this late, just saw it.

As for VAPID key, we don't currently support it out of the box the workaround it is that firebase supports VAPID key and if you're using firebase as a provider in Novu, it works!

If you want to use Novu in native ios apps, we do support it and you can get started here:
docs.novu.co/channels/push/apns/

Hope I was able to help and if you have any more questions, please drop them below. 😊

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Sumit Saurabh

You can still use Novu to send notifications using APN on ios devices

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zilvester

Sorry only just seen this 😵‍💫🫡

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Nwosa Tochukwu

Well detailed.. Thanks...

It will come in handy

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Sumit Saurabh

Glad you liked it, Nwosa!

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DevMirza

The steps are not well described and the code for front-end and back end not available too!

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Sumit Saurabh

What exactly was not clear in the steps Mirza? Can you point to something specific? I’d love to make it as clear as I can.

As for the code, it was my mistake, I’d mistakenly made the repositories private.

I’ve now made it public now, thanks for pointing it out.

You can also take a look at this link to go through more such projects in different technologies in addition to the one I’ve shared above:

github.com/novuhq/examples

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usando

Very nice hope to use on projects... Thank you for sharing

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Sumit Saurabh

So happy to share it with you! I hope you use it in a project soon

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Hamza Ghazouani • Edited

thank you so mush

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Sumit Saurabh

Thanks for reading!

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Nazar

Just wow!
Cool article content + nice design with animation = 🤩 🤯 😍
Good job @sumitsaurabh927 !

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Sumit Saurabh

Thanks a lot for those generous words Nazar! 😊

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gopalece1986

Wow nice

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Sumit Saurabh

Glad you liked it!

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Muhammad Ridwan Hakim, S.T.

Thank you so much.

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Sumit Saurabh

Thank you so much! 😊

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khaybee24

Good one 👍

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Erik-NA7

I built in-app real time notification using only socket.io, much simpler than this.

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Sumit Saurabh

Can you share a bit more? What features did you implement? What if I wanted email notifications or sms notifications or chat or in-app notifications? Can I do that easily using socket.io?