Summary
Progressive Web Apps are about to get a huge bump in functionality on iOS devices. Starting in iOS 16.4, we will be able to receive push notifications natively on our iOS devices from our Ruby on Rails PWA. In this episode, we explore creating push notifications from scratch without the need of a Google or Apple developer account.rails notifications ios progressive web app pwa vapid 38:45
Chapters
- Introduction (0:00)
- Tweaks from Episode 212 (2:33)
- Creating alert dialog to allow notifications (3:10)
- Handling notification permissions (5:01)
- Setting up VAPID keys (9:07)
- Registering the service worker (11:26)
- Sending the subscription to the Rails application (12:39)
- Quick recap (14:19)
- Creating the Push Subscription (15:58)
- Accept the subscription on the server side (17:16)
- Persisting the subscription (18:17)
- Securing the persisted information (19:52)
- Storing the registered devices (22:11)
- Filtering logs to exclude the subscription (23:24)
- Creating background jobs (24:33)
- Sending the Notifications (28:53)
- Receiving a pushed notification (33:23)
- Adding default_url_options (36:43)
- Forgot to add to_json (37:34)
- Demo of Push Notifications (37:56)
- Final thoughts (38:07)
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