Send Native Notifications

Notifications are only available in secure contexts (HTTPS).
You can send notifications to your users with the HTML5 Notifications API. We intercept the notification and send a native OS notification to your user instead.
When sending a notification in a ToDesktop app is you do not have to request permission first with the Notification.requestPermission() method as you would in a web app.
If you only want to send notifications in your Desktop app you can check if the window.todesktop object is present:
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if (window.todesktop) {
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  const notification = new Notification('Welcome to our desktop app.')
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}
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Extra Features
ToDesktop also adds new features to HTML5 Notifications
Custom sounds
You can specify a custom sound to be played when your notification is shown
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new Notification('Hello world', {
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    sound: './notification.mp3',
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})
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