Extract Action Notifier framework for push notifications about rails HOT 10 OPEN

Very excited for this! For more art to be examined, I've used Noticed from @excid3 on a bunch of my projects. It's been especially helpful for wrangling iOS + Android push notifications.

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Magnus Hult has very kindly agreed to transfer the gem name for use with this. So the name will be Action Notifier. We will keep the old versions of the gem to ensure no old user is left in a lurch, and we'll start the versioning with Action Notifier 8.0.

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Re: gem naming conflict - perhaps Action Alert or Action Broadcast?

Or maybe Action Notify or Action Notification. Broadcast might be a bit confusing because of ActionCable?

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Action Notifier has a bit of linguistic overlap with ActiveSupport::Notifications. If we are considering alternative names, what about Action Push?

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Action Notifier should also address the need for controlling the PWA badge counter. That's tied to the hip with Web Push, since the only time you get to reliably move the counter is when a notification is delivered.

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Very interesting)

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This just came up in a conversation on Noticed because I'm setting up an engine for push notifications + noticed. I have a working version here: http://github.com/jbennett/noticed-web_push.

Takes about 30 seconds to add web push to an app already using Noticed.

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Re: gem naming conflict - perhaps Action Alert or Action Broadcast?

Or maybe Action Notify or Action Notification. Broadcast might be a bit confusing because of ActionCable?

also Action Notice ?

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But the intention is not to support every possible delivery format for notifications under the sun (like SMS and definitely not email, we have Action Mailer for that).

I'm curious what the "Rails Way" of handling SMS is or should be. Most apps I've built in the last 10 years have needed it and a nice abstraction ala ActionMailer or this proposal would be appreciated. Fwiw we are currently using ActiveDelivery for this.

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