trailpack-push

📦 Trailpack to send push notification to Android and iOS devices from Trails application

Base on node-gcm and apn modules.

Intallation

With yo :

npm install -g yo generator-trails
yo trails:trailpack trailpack-push

With npm (you will have to create config file manually) :

npm install --save trailpack-push

Configuration

You need a /config/push.js file under your Trails project to configure your apis credential like this :

module.exports.push = {
	gcm : {
		senderId : null //Server API key
	},
	apn : {
		cert : null, //Path to cert file
		key  : null, //Path to key file
		/* 
		 ca         : [],
		 pfx        : "",
		 passphrase : "",
		 production : NODE_ENV == "production",
		 voip : false,
		 port : 2195,
		 rejectUnauthorized : true,
		 cacheLength : 1000,
		 autoAdjustCache : true,
		 maxConnections : 1,
		 connectTimeout : 10000,
		 connectionTimeout : 3600000,
		 connectionRetryLimit : 10,
		 buffersNotifications : true,
		 fastMode : false
		 //more infos here : https://github.com/argon/node-apn/blob/master/doc/connection.markdown
		 */
	}
};

Usage :

After install a new service is available. You can send GCM message/notification like this :

this.app.services.pushService.sendToGCM("DEVICE_TOKEN", {
    data         : {
      key1 : 'message1',
      key2 : 'message2'
    },
    notification: {
      title: "Hello, World",
      icon: "ic_launcher",
      body: "This is a notification that will be displayed ASAP."
    }
  }, true, function (err, results)
  {
    console.log(err, results);
  });

More informations about parameters here : https://github.com/ToothlessGear/node-gcm#usage

For an APN notification :

this.app.services.pushnotification.sendToAPN("DEVICE_TOKEN", {
    badge : 3,
    sound : "ping.aiff",
    alert : "new message",
    payload : {'messageFrom': 'Caroline'}
});

More informations about parameters here : https://github.com/argon/node-apn#sending-a-notification

License

MIT