The notification center is a component, also sometimes referred to as a widget that furnishes your web application with a beautiful and smooth In-App notification experience for users.

In-App notifications are different from push notifications in the sense that In-App notifications are consumed by the user in your app itself, whether push notifications are shown on the device level. Read more about push channel and supported providers.

Novu provides a pre-built, ready-to-use, and customizable UI component. It also allows you to bring your own UI via a headless component which can be used to add In-App notifications to any platform.

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Example

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Why use the Novu notification center?

  • Users can manage subscriber preferences from the notification center itself.
  • You want to notify about any product activity related to the user.
  • Prebuilt UI component so no need to build UI from scratch.
  • Highly customizable as per your product design system.
  • Multi-device real-time notification experience powered by web sockets.
  • Secure your connection using HMAC encryption.
  • Have multi-tabs notification experience.

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Concepts

  1. In-App notification:- In-App notification is a message sent to the subscriber using an In-App channel step in the workflow.
  2. In-App notifications feed:- List of all In-App messages sent to a particular subscriber.
  3. feeds:- feeds are stores/tabs in which In-App messages can be grouped. One message can be in only one feed.
  4. notification actions:- Notification actions are cta buttons below notification content that can be clicked to perform any action or external API call.
  5. redirect url:- When a single notification item from the list is clicked then it can be configured to perform an action or redirect to any URL.

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UI Libraries

  1. React
  2. Vue
  3. Angular
  4. Web Component
  5. Headless

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Backend SDK Methods

Backend sdk methods