Expo Push Notification Server with Angular PrimeNG UI

General

Default user

When the backend is started a default user is created with the credentials specified in the database-configuration.json file

Creating an app identifier

Start with creating an app identifier in the Expo Push Notification Server UI. An app identifier is needed for subscriber to register and for the user to specify for which subscriber the push notifications should be sent out.

Registering a subscriber

A client (using the Expo SDK) can register as subscriber.

To register a subscriber send a request to the subcriber/create endpoint with the following payload:

{
  token: "expo-push-notification-token",
  appIdentifierId: "your-app-identifier"
}

Token:

The expo push notification token received via:

Notifications.getExpoPushTokenAsync({ experienceId: experienceId })).data;

appIdentifierId

The app identifier created via the Expo Push Notification Server UI

Expo Util Example

See Expo App Notification Example for a full example. After successful registration of a subscriber you should see the subscriber in the list on the Expo Push Notification Server UI.

Sending push notifications

Push notifications can be sent to selected or all subscribers. Therefore, you need to log in to the Expo Push Notification Server UI.

Server

NodeJS Typescript server based on expressJS

Requirements

• Existing RethinkDB

Installing dependencies

npm install

Starting the server

npm run start

Frontend

Angular Frontend

Installing dependencies

npm install

Starting the frontend

ng serve

Running via Docker

You can use the DockerFile to create a Docker image for the Expo Push Notification Server which includes both the server and the UI.

• Run npm run build in the client directory. This command will build the frontend and copy the generated build into the public folder.
• Run npm run docker-build from the root directory to build the docker image
• Run npm run docker-run-server from the root directory to start the container

ToDos

See TODO.md for more information

Contribute

Feel free to contribute, either via opening an Issue on GitHub or actively join the development. This project is by far not finished and there are a lot of things to do.

Git Commit Message Convention

Please follow the conventional commits specification

License

See LICENSE.md for more information

Icons

App Icon from Smashicons