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How to send push notification to Specific user in Web-push?


I have an existing web site , i just need to push notification to the site, for that i am using Nodejs web-push package , I can able to receive notifications but i need to change it to User Specific,

For Example i want to send the notifications for the users based on the country

This is my code

client.js

const publicVapidKey = 'xxxxxx';

if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
  console.log('Registering service worker');

  run().catch(error => console.error(error));
}
function urlBase64ToUint8Array(base64String) {
  const padding = '='.repeat((4 - base64String.length % 4) % 4);
  const base64 = (base64String + padding)
    .replace(/-/g, '+')
    .replace(/_/g, '/');

  const rawData = window.atob(base64);
  const outputArray = new Uint8Array(rawData.length);

  for (let i = 0; i < rawData.length; ++i) {
    outputArray[i] = rawData.charCodeAt(i);
  }
  return outputArray;
}

async function run() {
  console.log('Registering service worker');
  const registration = await navigator.serviceWorker.
    register('worker.js');
  console.log('Registered service worker');

  console.log('Registering push');
  const subscription = await registration.pushManager.
    subscribe({
      userVisibleOnly: true,
      // The `urlBase64ToUint8Array()` function is the same as in
      // https://www.npmjs.com/package/web-push#using-vapid-key-for-applicationserverkey
      applicationServerKey: urlBase64ToUint8Array(publicVapidKey)
    });
    // subscription.user = $('.header-user-name').find('span').text();
  console.log('Registered push');

  console.log('Sending push');
  await fetch('http://localhost:3000/subscribe?user='+$('.header-user-name').find('span').text(), {
    method: 'POST',
    body: JSON.stringify(subscription),
    headers: {
      'content-type': 'application/json'
    }
  });
  console.log('Sent push');
}

Worker.js

console.log('Loaded service worker!');

self.addEventListener('push', ev => {
  const data = ev.data.json();
  console.log('Got push', data);

  ev.waitUntil(self.registration.showNotification(data.title, {
    body: 'Hello, World!',
    registration_ids: [$('.header-user-name').find('span').text()]
    icon: 'http://mongoosejs.com/docs/images/mongoose5_62x30_transparent.png'
  }));

});

Server Code (localhost:3000/push)

app.get('/push',function(req,res) {

  const payload = JSON.stringify({ title: 'Hello '+ user.name +' ' + req.query.title,  });

  console.log(req.query);
  console.log("yahooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo");

  webpush.sendNotification(newSubscription, payload).catch(error => {
    console.error(error.stack);
  });
  res.send({result : 'Success'});
});

Solution

  • After long gap, I got a solution for this problem.

    Steps to be followed:

    1. Create an ExpressJs api to store the user subscription in to a database.
    2. Get the user based on countries from database (you can use your own backend language I have chosen Nodejs).
    3. Create an api which can send push notifications using given parameter like (Country, Users, Etc).

    Happy Coding.