With Web Notifications API, the app can end up displaying 5+ notifications. The notifications do not automatically close. Is there a method available that will close all open desktop notifications?
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you can call the .cancel() handler on your notification variable
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I'm making a chrome extension for a classified ads website. With the chrome extension users will be able to get latest lists from their watched categories/search query.
I am already working on a websocket server to send notifications to users, but this way I have to always have a socket connection open to every user.
My second approach was to use Firebase, but this will run the notification only when a user clicks the icon (as I've read), and I would rather have this done from my server
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Are there any other possible solutions to send notifications to a chrome extension without the user clicking on the icon?
You can use Google's push infrastructure ― the very same that powers Android push notifications ― Google Cloud Messaging.
Note: Firebase Cloud Messaging is presented as an upgraded version of GCM; while true, it's not natively supported by Chrome in a way that GCM is.
chrome.gcm API is the one that works with it. See its documentation, as well as GCM documentation, for details.
There's even a tutorial: Implementing GCM Client on Chrome
But in a nutshell, your extension will register as a subscriber with GCM, pass the subscription ID to the server, and then the application server posts messages to GCM using those IDs.
You should also be able to use Firebase, if you're willing to implement it using the generic JS SDK; "this will run the notification only when a user clicks the icon" sounds pretty nonsensical ― a background page should be able to keep a listener alive and react, which is probably how your system works now. I would still recommend a native API, which should be compatible with Event pages.
Have you looked at the chrome.notifications API? It allows you to create rich notifications using templates and show these notifications to users in the system tray.
https://developer.chrome.com/apps/notifications
You can have a connection to your socket server in the background script, listen for messages from your socket server and trigger an event that shows the notification.
I am currently working on a video web application. We rely on notification to notify provider there is call in.
Firebase works well even when I close the tab. I found that if there is any chrome's thread running in background, I will get notification.
Is there any way that I can make a background thread active even the user click close button on chrome? how about chrome extension? does it approach the goal?
Firebase Cloud Messaging for web relies on a service worker to receive messages when the web app is not active/visible. This requires that Chrome is active.
If the user completely quits Chrome, all tabs, service workers and extensions are stopped. There is no way to still receive web push notifications in that case.
I'd like to set up Web Push notifications on my progressive web application (PWA) using Service Workers. But I'm having trouble understanding the role of third-party services like Google Cloud Messaging and Amazon SNS, and if I need them at all.
From what I understand, when the user clicks the Allow notifications button, you get a unique subscription endpoint. Then in your backend, you can use this endpoint to send notifications to that specific user.
However, all back end libraries that I've found (like pywebpush or web-push for Node.js), mention that you need a GCM API key in order to send notifications.
But here is what the MDN Push API documentation says:
Chrome versions earlier than 52 require you to set up a project on
Google Cloud Messaging to send push messages [...]
So I'm assuming that the new versions of Chrome (version 58 today) should be able to display notifications without the help of a third party.
Here is an example of what I want to achieve. I'm just not sure of what they do in the backend.
Note: I'm not trying to send native push notifications to Android or iOS devices, but only to my progressive web application on Chrome using the Web Push API.
The Browser Push Service
As I have explained in another answer, in order to send web push notifications, you need to interact with the browser push service. Basically each browser, when the user allows push notifications, returns an endpoint (URL) that is specific for its own push service.
For example:
Chrome and Opera endpoints start with prefix https://fcm.googleapis.com/, because they use FCM (ex GCM)
Firefox endpoints start with prefix https://updates.push.services.mozilla.com/, because Firefox uses Mozilla autopush
So notifications will always pass through FCM and autopush, there's no alternative: the push service is hardcoded inside the browser.
Web Push Notification Services as a layer of abstraction
There is also another kind of web push services. Their aim is to provide a layer of abstraction and additional features over the browser push service. For example Pushpad is one of them (I am the founder).
Instead of interacting directly with the different browser push services (e.g. FCM, autopush), your web app can interact just with one push service (e.g. Pushpad), which then interacts with the browser push services for you (automating many tasks, like VAPID and providing additional features like monitoring and integrations).
Confusion about FCM
FCM is quite confusing because it acts both as a "browser push service" for Chrome and Opera, but it also acts as a general "web push notification service" for other browsers. So for Firefox for example, FCM acts as a proxy towards Mozilla autopush.
I recently added a web manifest to my webapp following this guide. It works perfectly fine. I have also implemented push notifications. I want to know if there is a way to add an unread notification count like any other android app does indicating number of unread notifications on the launcher icon on the homescreen.
The WICG Badging API will most likely solve this, but it will take some time before browser implement it.
See https://github.com/WICG/badging/blob/master/explainer.md
Go to facebook and allow HTML5 Desktop Notification for it.
Close facebook tab.
Ask somebody to write you message on facebook.
Now u see the notification from facebook while facebook site isn't open. HOW?
Facebook uses the Push Notifications API: https://www.w3.org/TR/push-api/
More information:
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/push-notifications/
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/getting-started/push-notifications/
They use the Push API - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API
Quoting from there:
The Push API gives web applications the ability to receive messages
pushed to them from a server, whether or not the web app is in the
foreground, or even currently loaded, on a user agent.