Notification push using strapi and react native

[Gabriel_Eliade]

Hi, I’m developing an application using react native, and I’m going to deal with the push notifications. So I was looking for some information and tutorials but there is none ressources about sending notifications push using strapi, all the ressources are with th following stack : “Expo + firebase + React Native”. So I have some questions

Is it possible to send push notifications using strapi ?

Do I have to do somthing inside strapi if (for example) I want to send an notification every time I add an article in my strapi backend ?

thank you for helping

[DMehaffy]

You could use a push notification library and execute the push using the afterCreate / afterUpdate lifecycle callbacks detailed here: https://strapi.io/documentation/v3.x/concepts/models.html#lifecycle-hooks

[Gabriel_Eliade]

Hey thank you so much for your awnser, have you a library in mind ?
I’m gonna check this, by chance do you have any example ?
(Si if I understand I don’t need to use firebase ?)

[Gabriel_Eliade]

Is it almost the same thing as if I want to send Email ?

[DMehaffy]

@Gabriel_Eliade

Hey thank you so much for your awnser, have you a library in mind ?

I’m sorry I don’t have any in mind or any examples on hand.

@Gabriel_Eliade

Is it almost the same thing as if I want to send Email ?

I would imagine so, those lifecycles are just executed after something has been fetched, updated, created, or deleted from the database so it makes sense to be the perfect place to send a notification.

[jasonleow]

Hi @Gabriel_Eliade, did you find a solution in the end? I’m also looking for a solutions right now for my Strapi project…

[Gabriel_Eliade]

hi sorry for the delay, my advice it’s to use Onesignal or firebase messaging

[jasonleow]

Thanks! I managed to figure out using the Strapi REST APIs, as I didn’t need a realtime database.

[LuisAlaguna]

How did you managed it?

Unfortunately, right now the GraphQL plugin does not support subscriptions, what would be the best way to do this.

[jasonleow]

For notifications using REST API, see this

Notification plugin/extension for Strapi

Yes, that was the wrong term. For notifications you should do the following: Integrate Websockets (to get real time notifications, you can take a look at socket.io), if you don’t mind to get notifications only during refresh then use the Rest API. You can also use Rest API to get periodically new notifications, like every 30seconds. Create a collection type called Notifications (with fields: Type [Enumeration: Mention, Reply], Relation with User [User has many Notifications], Read [Boolean]) …

[LuisAlaguna]

Architecturally talking: what does perform better: push notifications or socket io?

[cajazzer]

We integrated Firebase Cloud Messaging with Strapi core controllers (override Create and Update) and send Firebase push notifications any time a new article is created or updated.