About Pushpad and web push notifications.
APNs an GCM have always provided a way to send notifications in batch.
It would be useful to see this feature for the Push API, which unfortunately doesn’t have it yet, meaning that you have to make an HTTP request for each endpoint.
Continue reading “Send notifications in batch with the Push API”
Pushpad is a service for web push notifications. In order to add push notifications to their websites, our customers need to install the service worker that we provide on their websites.
Initially we just asked customers to copy and paste the whole content of the service worker. However this meant that for every update we made to the script, our customers had to take action.
Then we discovered importScripts Continue reading “Service worker: importScripts never updates scripts”
The working draft of the Push API currently doesn’t offer a good way to manage unsubscriptions.
The problems arise in the following scenarios:
Continue reading “The Push API and its wild unsubscription mechanism”
In this tutorial we’ll see how to add push notifications to your WordPress blog. Notifications are real push notifications, meaning that they are delivered even when the user is not on your website. This way you can re-engage users when you publish new contents.
We are going to use the official Pushpad plugin. Continue reading “Add push notifications to WordPress in a few minutes”