A node.js module for interfacing with Apple Push Notification, Google Cloud Messaging, Windows Push Notification, Web-Push Notification and Amazon Device Messaging services.
npm install node-pushnotifications --saveNode version >= 6.x.x
- Powerful and intuitive.
- Multi platform push notifications.
- Automatically detects destination device type.
- Unified error handling.
- Written in ES6, compatible with ES5 through babel transpilation.
Include the settings for each device type. You should only include the settings for the devices that you expect to have. I.e. if your app is only available for android or for ios, you should only include gcm or apn respectively.
import PushNotifications from 'node-pushnotifications';
const settings = {
gcm: {
id: null,
phonegap: false, // phonegap compatibility mode, see below (defaults to false)
...
},
apn: {
token: {
key: './certs/key.p8', // optionally: fs.readFileSync('./certs/key.p8')
keyId: 'ABCD',
teamId: 'EFGH',
},
production: false // true for APN production environment, false for APN sandbox environment,
...
},
adm: {
client_id: null,
client_secret: null,
...
},
wns: {
client_id: null,
client_secret: null,
notificationMethod: 'sendTileSquareBlock',
...
},
web: {
vapidDetails: {
subject: '< \'mailto\' Address or URL >',
publicKey: '< URL Safe Base64 Encoded Public Key >',
privateKey: '< URL Safe Base64 Encoded Private Key >',
},
gcmAPIKey: 'gcmkey',
TTL: 2419200,
contentEncoding: 'aes128gcm',
headers: {}
},
isAlwaysUseFCM: false, // true all messages will be sent through node-gcm (which actually uses FCM)
};
const push = new PushNotifications(settings);- GCM options: see node-gcm
- APN options: see node-apn
- ADM options: see node-adm
- WNS options: see wns
- Web-push options: see web-push
isAlwaysUseFCM: use node-gcm to send notifications to GCM (by default), iOS, ADM and WNS.
iOS: It is recommended to use provider authentication tokens. You need the .p8 certificate that you can obtain in your account membership. You should ask for an Apple Push Notification Authentication Key (Sandbox & Production) or Apple Push Notification service SSL (Sandbox & Production). However, you can also use certificates. See node-apn to see how to prepare cert.pem and key.pem.
You can send to multiple devices, independently of platform, creating an array with different destination device IDs.
// Single destination
const registrationIds = 'INSERT_YOUR_DEVICE_ID';
// Multiple destinations
const registrationIds = [];
registrationIds.push('INSERT_YOUR_DEVICE_ID');
registrationIds.push('INSERT_OTHER_DEVICE_ID');Android: If you provide more than 1.000 registration tokens, they will automatically be splitted in 1.000 chunks (see this issue in gcm repo)
Create a JSON object with a title and message and send the notification.
const data = {
title: 'New push notification', // REQUIRED for Android
topic: 'topic', // REQUIRED for iOS (apn and gcm)
body: 'Powered by AppFeel',
custom: {
sender: 'AppFeel',
},
priority: 'high', // gcm, apn. Supported values are 'high' or 'normal' (gcm). Will be translated to 10 and 5 for apn. Defaults to 'high'
collapseKey: '', // gcm for android, used as collapseId in apn
contentAvailable: true, // gcm, apn. node-apn will translate true to 1 as required by apn.
delayWhileIdle: true, // gcm for android
restrictedPackageName: '', // gcm for android
dryRun: false, // gcm for android
icon: '', // gcm for android
tag: '', // gcm for android
color: '', // gcm for android
clickAction: '', // gcm for android. In ios, category will be used if not supplied
locKey: '', // gcm, apn
bodyLocArgs: '', // gcm, apn
titleLocKey: '', // gcm, apn
titleLocArgs: '', // gcm, apn
retries: 1, // gcm, apn
encoding: '', // apn
badge: 2, // gcm for ios, apn
sound: 'ping.aiff', // gcm, apn
alert: { // apn, will take precedence over title and body
title: 'title'
body: 'body'
// details: https://github.com/node-apn/node-apn/blob/master/doc/notification.markdown#convenience-setters
},
// alert: '', // A string is also accepted as a payload for alert
// Your notification won't appear on ios if alert is empty object
// If alert is an empty string the regular 'title' and 'body' will show in Notification
titleLocKey: '', // apn and gcm for ios
titleLocArgs: '', // apn and gcm for ios
launchImage: '', // apn and gcm for ios
action: '', // apn and gcm for ios
category: '', // apn and gcm for ios
// mdm: '', // apn and gcm for ios. Use this to send Mobile Device Management commands.
// https://developer.apple.com/library/content/documentation/Miscellaneous/Reference/MobileDeviceManagementProtocolRef/3-MDM_Protocol/MDM_Protocol.html
urlArgs: '', // apn and gcm for ios
truncateAtWordEnd: true, // apn and gcm for ios
mutableContent: 0, // apn
threadId: '', // apn
expiry: Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) + 28 * 86400, // seconds
timeToLive: 28 * 86400, // if both expiry and timeToLive are given, expiry will take precedency
headers: [], // wns
launch: '', // wns
duration: '', // wns
consolidationKey: 'my notification', // ADM
};
// You can use it in node callback style
push.send(registrationIds, data, (err, result) => {
if (err) {
console.log(err);
} else {
console.log(result);
}
});
// Or you could use it as a promise:
push.send(registrationIds, data)
.then((results) => { ... })
.catch((err) => { ... });errwill be null if all went fine, otherwise will return the error from the respective provider module.resultwill contain an array with the following objects (one object for each device type found in device registration id's):
[
{
method: 'gcm', // The method used send notifications and which this info is related to
multicastId: [], // (only Android) Array with unique ID (number) identifying the multicast message, one identifier for each chunk of 1.000 notifications)
success: 0, // Number of notifications that have been successfully sent. It does not mean that the notification has been deliveried.
failure: 0, // Number of notifications that have been failed to be send.
message: [{
messageId: '', // (only for android) String specifying a unique ID for each successfully processed message or undefined if error
regId: value, // The current registrationId (device token id). Beware: For Android this may change if Google invalidates the previous device token. Use "originalRegId" if you are interested in when this changed occurs.
originalRegId: value, // (only for android) The registrationId that was sent to the push.send() method. Compare this with field "regId" in order to know when the original registrationId (device token id) gets changed.
error: new Error('unknown'), // If any, there will be an Error object here for depuration purposes (when possible it will come form source libraries aka apn, node-gcm)
errorMsg: 'some error', // If any, will include the error message from the respective provider module
}],
},
{
method: 'apn',
... // Same structure here, except for message.orignalRegId
},
{
method: 'wns',
... // Same structure here, except for message.orignalRegId
},
{
method: 'adm',
... // Same structure here, except for message.orignalRegId
},
{
method: 'webPush',
... // Same structure here, except for message.orignalRegId
},
]NOTE: If you provide more than 1.000 registration tokens, they will automatically be splitted in 1.000 chunks (see this issue in gcm repo)
The following parameters are used to create a GCM message. See https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/http-server-ref#table5 for more info:
// Set default custom data from data
let custom;
if (typeof data.custom === 'string') {
custom = {
message: data.custom,
};
} else if (typeof data.custom === 'object') {
custom = Object.assign({}, data.custom);
} else {
custom = {
data: data.custom,
};
}
custom.title = custom.title || data.title;
custom.message = custom.message || data.body;
custom.sound = custom.sound || data.sound;
custom.icon = custom.icon || data.icon;
custom.msgcnt = custom.msgcnt || data.badge;
if (opts.phonegap === true && data.contentAvailable) {
custom['content-available'] = 1;
}
const message = new gcm.Message({ // See https://developers.google.com/cloud-messaging/http-server-ref#table5
collapseKey: data.collapseKey,
priority: data.priority === 'normal' ? data.priority : 'high',
contentAvailable: data.contentAvailable || false,
delayWhileIdle: data.delayWhileIdle || false, // Deprecated from Nov 15th 2016 (will be ignored)
timeToLive: data.expiry - Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) || data.timeToLive || 28 * 86400,
restrictedPackageName: data.restrictedPackageName,
dryRun: data.dryRun || false,
data: data.custom,
notification: {
title: data.title, // Android, iOS (Watch)
body: data.body, // Android, iOS
icon: data.icon, // Android
sound: data.sound, // Android, iOS
badge: data.badge, // iOS
tag: data.tag, // Android
color: data.color, // Android
click_action: data.clickAction || data.category, // Android, iOS
body_loc_key: data.locKey, // Android, iOS
body_loc_args: data.locArgs, // Android, iOS
title_loc_key: data.titleLocKey, // Android, iOS
title_loc_args: data.titleLocArgs, // Android, iOS
},
}data is the parameter in push.send(registrationIds, data)
Note: parameters are duplicated in data and in notification, so in fact they are being send as:
data: {
title: 'title',
message: 'body',
sound: 'mySound.aiff',
icon: undefined,
msgcnt: undefined
// Any custom data
sender: 'appfeel-test',
},
notification: {
title: 'title',
body: 'body',
icon: undefined,
sound: 'mySound.aiff',
badge: undefined,
tag: undefined,
color: undefined,
click_action: undefined,
body_loc_key: undefined,
body_loc_args: undefined,
title_loc_key: undefined,
title_loc_args: undefined
}In that way, they can be accessed in android in the following two ways:
String title = extras.getString("title");
title = title != null ? title : extras.getString("gcm.notification.title");In case your app is written with Cordova / Ionic and you are using the PhoneGap PushPlugin,
you can use the phonegap setting in order to adapt to the recommended behaviour described in
https://github.com/phonegap/phonegap-plugin-push/blob/master/docs/PAYLOAD.md#android-behaviour.
const settings = {
gcm: {
id: '<yourId>',
phonegap: true
}
}The following parameters are used to create an APN message:
{
retryLimit: data.retries || -1,
expiry: data.expiry || ((data.timeToLive || 28 * 86400) + Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000)),
priority: data.priority === 'normal' ? 5 : 10,
encoding: data.encoding,
payload: data.custom || {},
badge: data.badge,
sound: data.sound,
alert: data.alert || {
title: data.title,
body: data.body,
'title-loc-key': data.titleLocKey,
'title-loc-args': data.titleLocArgs,
'loc-key': data.locKey,
'loc-args': data.locArgs,
'launch-image': data.launchImage,
action: data.action,
},
topic: data.topic, // Required
category: data.category || data.clickAction,
contentAvailable: data.contentAvailable,
mdm: data.mdm,
urlArgs: data.urlArgs,
truncateAtWordEnd: data.truncateAtWordEnd,
collapseId: data.collapseKey,
mutableContent: data.mutableContent || 0,
}data is the parameter in push.send(registrationIds, data)
- See node-apn fields
- Please note that
topicis required (see node-apn docs)
iOS supports silent push notifications which are not displayed to the user but only used to transmit data.
You can send silent push notifications by sending a push notification with normal priority and no sound, badge or alert.
const silentPushData = {
topic: 'yourTopic',
contentAvailable: true,
priority: 'normal',
payload: {
yourKey: 'yourValue',
...
}
}The following fields are used to create a WNS message:
const notificationMethod = settings.wns.notificationMethod;
const opts = Object.assign({}, settings.wns);
opts.headers = data.headers || opts.headers;
opts.launch = data.launch || opts.launch;
opts.duration = data.duration || opts.duration;
delete opts.notificationMethod;
delete data.headers;
delete data.launch;
delete data.duration;
wns[notificationMethod](regId, data, opts, (err, response) => { ... });data is the parameter in push.send(registrationIds, data)
Note: Please keep in mind that if data.accessToken is supplied, each push notification will be sent after the previous one has been responded. This is because Microsoft may send a new accessToken in the response and it should be used in successive requests. This can slow down the whole process depending on the number of devices to send.
The following parameters are used to create an ADM message:
const data = Object.assign({}, _data); // _data is the data passed as method parameter
const consolidationKey = data.consolidationKey;
const expiry = data.expiry;
const timeToLive = data.timeToLive;
delete data.consolidationKey;
delete data.expiry;
delete data.timeToLive;
const ADMmesssage = {
expiresAfter: expiry - Math.floor(Date.now() / 1000) || timeToLive || 28 * 86400,
consolidationKey,
data,
};data is the parameter in push.send(registrationIds, data)
Data can be passed as a simple string payload. If you do not pass a string, the parameter value will be stringified beforehand.
Settings are directly forwarded to webPush.sendNotification.
const payload = typeof data === 'string' ? data : JSON.stringify(data);
webPush.sendNotification(regId, payload, settings.web);A working server example implementation can be found at https://github.com/alex-friedl/webpush-example/blob/master/server/index.js
- Crossplatform integration example using this library and a React Native app
- Web-Push client/server example
- Node Push Notify from alexlds
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