Articles Tagged push notifications

Scheduled is the key word there — that’s a fairly new thing! When a push notification is scheduled (i.e. “Take your pill” or “You’ve got a flight in 3 hours”) that means it can be shown to the user even if they’ve gone offline. That’s an improvement from the past where push notification required the user being online. 

So how do scheduled push notifications work? There are four key parts we’re going to look at:

• Registering a Service Worker
• Adding

Sometimes the seesaw of web tech is fascinating. Service workers have arrived, and beyond offline networking (read Jeremy’s book) which is possibly their best feature, they can enable push notifications via the Push API.

I totally get the push (pun intended) to make that happen. There is an omnipresent sentiment that we want the web to win, as there should be in this industry. Losing on the web means losing to native apps on all the … Read article “Push and ye shall receive”

In the first part of this series we set up the front end with a Service Worker, a `manifest.json` file, and initialized Firebase. Now we need to create our database and watcher functions.… Read article “Implementing Push Notifications: The Back End”

You know those the little notification windows that pop up in the top right (Mac) or bottom right (Windows) corner when, for example, a new article on our favorite blog or a new video on YouTube was uploaded? Those are push notifications.

Part of the magic of these notifications is that they can appear even when we’re not currently on that website to give us that information (after you’ve approved it). On mobile devices, where supported, you can … Read article “Implementing Push Notifications: Setting Up & Firebase”