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Firebase Cookbook

You're reading from Firebase Cookbook Over 70 recipes to help you create real-time web and mobile applications with Firebase

Product type Paperback

Published in Nov 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788296335

Length 288 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Firebase

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Author (1):

Houssem Yahiaoui

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Table of Contents (22) Chapters

Title Page

Graphic Bundle

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

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Preface

1. Firebase - Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

2. Firebase Real-Time Database

3. File Management with Firebase Storage

4. Firebase Authentication

5. Securing Application Flow with Firebase Rules

6. Progressive Applications Powered by Firebase

7. Firebase Admin SDK

8. Extend Firebase with Cloud Functions

9. We’re Done, Let’s Deploy

10. Integrating Firebase with NativeScript

11. Integrating Firebase with Android/iOS Natively

12. Hack Application's Growth

13. Adding Analytics and Maximizing Earnings

14. Firebase Cloud FireStore

Implementing notification sending

In Chapter 6, Progressive Applications powered by Firebase, we introduced how we can integrate the old FCM utility within our NodeJS server. Now the Firebase SDK provides us with more diverse methods to send push notification messages; plus, it plays nicely with other services, so let's see how we can send push notifications directly to our users using nothing but the Firebase Admin SDK.

How to do it...

In order to send push notification messages to users, we need to have their registration_token; such a token is grabbed from the user browser side, whether it's mobile or desktop. Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox support this functionality, and at the time of writing this book, Safari included the functionality over nightly build, while MS Edge is still in development. It's all related to whether the Browser OEM support service works or not.

Another way is via native mobile apps; you can retrieve that registration_token and send it directly to your Firebase...

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Authors (1)

Houssem Yahiaoui

Houssem Yahiaoui

Houssem Yahiaoui is a Telerik Developer Expert, Google Developer Group Lead, Meetup organizer, Conference Speaker, and Technical blogger among a few things. He has been a developer since the age of 14 and Firebase lover since day one. He's also a passionate JavaScript developer and strongly believes that JavaScript should fix the World's hanger problem.

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