implementation of push notifications
Hi, I am trying to implement push notifications and read through a few Firebase Cloud Messaging tutorials.
The concept is
1. get notification permission and generate a token
2. send token to server
3. server emits push notifications to token
Can't I just subscribe to "userId"? As I want to send notifications to all devices of authenticated users. And don't want to mess around with all those tokens.
Is Firebase Cloud Messaging the best way to implement something like this? I looked at OneSignal or Pusher Beams but they have a 1000 "web" subscriber limit.
4 Replies
if you have the device id
you can dynamically send notifications
I would still have to mess around with saving those ids.
For websockets I used to subscribe to the "itemId" and on the server send realtime updates to this specific Id.
Or is that not possible with firebase
you can still use firestore realtime subscription
if you care to send on demand notifications to a device
will need the first one