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I'm trying to make a simple app that should display notification when button is clicked. The problem is that the notification does not show, but console.logs are showing. Should the notification work on development mode? (meaning just running electron ., and I don't have to build and install the app)
Windows OS:
System->Notification & Actions
Code:
// main.js
const { app, BrowserWindow, ipcMain, Notification } = require("electron");
const path = require("path");
const url = require("url");
let win;
function createWindow() {
// Create the browser window.
win = new BrowserWindow({ width: 800, height: 600 });
// and load the index.html of the app.
win.loadURL(
url.format({
pathname: path.join(__dirname, "index.html"),
protocol: "file:",
slashes: true
})
);
// Open the DevTools.
// win.webContents.openDevTools()
// Emitted when the window is closed.
win.on("closed", () => {
// Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
// in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
// when you should delete the corresponding element.
win = null;
});
}
const appId = "elite-notifier";
app.setAppUserModelId(appId);
app.on("ready", createWindow);
console.log("notifying");
ipcMain.on("notify", () => {
console.log("notified");
const WindowsToaster = require("node-notifier").WindowsToaster;
const notifier = new WindowsToaster({
withFallback: false
});
notifier.notify(
{
title: "My awesome title",
message: "Hello from node, Mr. User!",
sound: true, // Only Notification Center or Windows Toasters
wait: false // Wait with callback, until user action is taken against notification
},
function(err, response) {
// Response is response from notification
console.log("responded...");
}
);
});
// index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Notifier!</h1>
<button type="button" id="notify">Click here to trigger a notification!</button>
<script type="text/javascript">
const { ipcRenderer } = require('electron');
const button = document.getElementById('notify');
console.log('BUTTON: ', button)
button.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
console.log('clicked...');
ipcRenderer.send('notify')
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
652
I've got it working now, thanks to all the people here :) https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/issues/144#issuecomment-319324058
Based on anthonyraymond's comment, you need to have your app INSTALLED in your windows machine with an appId. You can configure appId in your package.json like this.
{
"name": "myapp",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "test",
"main": "main.js",
"build": {
"appId": "com.myapp.id"
}
}
The appId does not need to have that java/android format, my app just have an appId of elite-notifier.
Then you can pass the appId when calling the notify function of notifier.
notifier.notify(
{
appName: "com.myapp.id", <-- yes, the key here is appName :)
title: "Hello",
message: "Hello world!",
wait: true
},
function(err, response) {
// Response is response from notification
console.log("responded...");
}
);
After installation, This will work even on development mode (by running electron . command) provided that you'll not change the appId of your app after installation since there will be a mismatch on the installed one and the development version of the app.
75
You don't need to use IPC and send notifications from the main process, this is supported from the renderer process using the HTML5 notification API.
let myNotification = new Notification('Title', {
body: 'Lorem Ipsum Dolor Sit Amet'
})
myNotification.onclick = () => {
console.log('Notification clicked')
}
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