In this article, we are going to learn how we can create notifications/reminder in Windows/ MacOS with your Node.js app.
Approach:
To make a notification through our node app, we are going to use node-notifier package. It is already a quiet popular package with more than 9M weekly downloads!
About this package:
Steps:
Do the initial setup for node app.
Install the package:
yarn add node-notifier
or
npm install node-notifier
- Quickstart with this short code: add this code in your
index.js
const notifier = require('node-notifier');
// Object
notifier.notify({
title: 'My notification',
message: 'Hello, there!'
});
You can further add more custom option in it like icon, wait for user action, timeout, reply etc.
const notifier = require('node-notifier');
const path = require('path');
notifier.notify(
{
title: 'My awesome title',
message: 'Hello from node, Mr. User!',
icon: path.join(__dirname, 'coulson.jpg'), // Absolute path (doesn't work on balloons)
sound: true, // Only Notification Center or Windows Toasters
wait: true // Wait with callback, until user action is taken against notification, does not apply to Windows Toasters as they always wait or notify-send as it does not support the wait option
},
function (err, response, metadata) {
// Response is response from notification
// Metadata contains activationType, activationAt, deliveredAt
}
);
notifier.on('click', function (notifierObject, options, event) {
// Triggers if `wait: true` and user clicks notification
});
notifier.on('timeout', function (notifierObject, options) {
// Triggers if `wait: true` and notification closes
});
💡 Note: This package has its own system requirements.
- macOS: >= 10.8 for native notifications. _
- Linux: _
notify-osdorlibnotify-bininstalled (Ubuntu should have this by default) _- Windows: >= 8, or task bar balloons for Windows < 8.
- And if not met any requirement then it will use Growl.
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