How to send push notification using XMPP Server?

Question

I want to develop a chat application in iphone. I'm using ejabberd xmpp server. Now i'm able to send message to other user.

Now i want to receive the message with push notification.

I heard that we can use xmpp servers to send push notifications.

So Can anyone tell me, I want to know how

• Is it possible to send push notification with ejabberd

• Is it possible send push notifications from ejabberd xmpp server using node js.

Please give any suggestion to start using notifications for messages in xmpp.

Answer 1

If you want to send push notifications with ejabberd community edition, you need to add an ejabberd module, which sends the offline messages to a specified push notification provider. This provider send the notifications to apple APNS or googles GCM. You could develop a module by self or maybe you will find some in inet. mod_zeropush (https://github.com/ZeroPush/mod_zeropush) would be one of them, but the zeropush service by self is canceled. Another one would be mod_onesignal (https://github.com/nobreak/mod_onesignal). OneSignal is a free to use Push Notification provider.