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Desktop Notifications Plugin

Show a desktop notification when a message is received and app is not in focus.

How to Implement

The desktop notification plugin is straight forward to implement. The following are supported and tested browsers:

Browser	Supported	Last Validated Version
Chrome	Yes	v.68
Firefox	Yes	v.61
Safari	Yes	v.11.1
Opera	Yes	v.55
IE	?	N/a

Install Plugin

npm install chat-engine-desktop-notifications --save

Plugin Configuration

CE currently supports the following options for displaying desktop notifications.

For additional configuration please refer to the following (MDN reference)[https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification].

let desktopNotificationsConfig = {
    title: (event) => {
        return '<INSERT_MSG_TITLE_HERE>'
    },
    message: (event) => {
        return event.data.text;   			// (default) displays CE message text for the room
    },
    icon: (event) => {
        return './pn-cloud.png';
    },
    callback: (event) => {
        window.focus();
    }
}

Then to initialize, attach the plugin to the ChatEngine.chat object:

ChatEngine.chat.plugin(
    ChatEngineCore.plugin['chat-engine-desktop-notifications'](desktopNotificationsConfig)
);

Allow Desktop Notifications Prompt

By default, the CE desktop notification plugin handles the prompting the user to Show Notifications.

To instantiate this earlier, place the following snippet within your initialization code for CE:

Notification.requestPermission().then((res) => {
    console.log(res);
});

Example Code

To see the desktop notifications example in action, add your CE pub/sub keys to '''example/desktop.js''' and then run the following:

cd example
npm install
http-server 

Open a supported browser to 127.0.0.1:8080 and open the desktop.html file.

Support

• If you need help, have a general question a feature request or to file a bug, contact support@pubnub.com