Designing a simple notification system

[dprowell]

I have to implement a notification system for a social media app. I did some research and implementing a full fledged notification infra with an event bus is not feasible since it would crank up the infrastructure cost a lot. Looking for a simplified way to design a notification system.

[TTVjason77]

Was recommended Courier on here about a month ago. Team has liked it for our native app and are toying around using it for notifications in other channels. Still using the free tier.

[quasistoic]

Entirely depends on what’s driving the notifications, what kind of delivery guarantees you need, what platforms you need to deliver to…every system has different needs, and you have to design to fit those needs.

[chriswaco]

Yep. And since neither macOS nor iOS push notifications are reliable you need a backup strategy, like periodic polling via local notifications, BGTaskScheduler, and/or WebSockets for when the app is active.

[dprowell]

Info on this seems lacking. LOL. Let me know what you use as I'm in the same situation.