Web push notifications

[ava30]

Do you use tools for "web push" notifications? If so, which application do you use?

 

[Tim Ford]

hi @ava30 can you just clarify a little what you mean by "which application do you use"? do you mean for development, receiving the notification or which service?

Tim.

 

[fisicx]

Like he said, it depends on what notifications you want to push. But you can't push a notification to a web browser unless the user is accessing your server. And even then it all depends on how they are accessing your server.

So a bit of clarification on what you want to do would help.

 

[ava30]

@Tim Ford example pushpushgo and com (I can't add website address). I have never used this type of tool, so I ask more experienced forum members.

 

[Tim Ford]

Hi @ava30, its not thing that i have used for marketing however i do allow certain website to send me notifications, (developers.google and dot com /web/fundamentals/push-notifications/faq)

Is a good read before it gets in to the technical side of things, you can receive notifications even when your browser is closed on desktops as long as a broker service is running, chrome broker service tends to run on startup, however in some instances if chrome was to crash and not restart you might not receive the notifications.

What i do like when using chrome and an Android device is the ability to sync these across all devices, am pretty sure that would be the same on Apple as well.

I personally haven't found a use for them yet but thinking on the eCommerce side of things you could use it for delivery notifications, but pushpushgo looks interesting, if you are using ZenDesk they have a service called outbound.io which again provides some good integrations.

Would be interested as well to hear if anyone uses these services and also what for.

Tim.

 

[arnydnxluk]

I implemented the Push API for a project earlier this year. It's relatively simple to implement, so you may find your existing developer can add the functionality to your website for a reasonable one-off cost.

I'm sure there will also be plugins appearing for the popular CMS's soon if they haven't already, so I would advise checking for those before paying a monthly subscription to a third party service. Just make sure any notifications are being queued and dispatched asynchronously, e.g. via cron.

Edit

Here you go, WordPress has a plugin published by none other than Mozilla themselves:
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/web-push/

Here's another one for WordPress:
https://en-gb.wordpress.org/plugins/push-notifications-for-wp/

Definitely consider such plugins before a third party subscription service.

 

[ava30]

Thanks @arnydnxluk, I check and find plug-in for Prestashop.