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:

        import { platform } from '@todesktop/client-core';

if (platform.todesktop.isDesktopApp()) {
  const notification = new Notification('Welcome to our desktop app.');
}

      

# 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

        new Notification('Hello world', {
  sound: './notification.mp3'
});