Unit tests:

UI tests:

Add tooltip-style reactive notifications to your Meteor application. Makes use of Meteor's rendering system; not just a jQuery/bootstrap wrapper.

See example page @ meteor.com source: github.com

$ meteor add gfk:notifications

If you want a notification to always be visible within the viewport of the browser even when the user scrolls, you should set the position of the notifications wrapper div to fixed.

Add the following CSS to your application:

ul.notifications {
position: fixed;
}

You can use the server-messages package for that. The example page is setup for the usecase of notifications with this package source

First add gfk:server-messages to your application

meteor add gfk:server-messages

Then add the following code to your application:

Shared:

serverMessages = new ServerMessages();

Client:

  serverMessages.listen('serverMessage:info', function (subject, message, options) {
    Notifications.info(subject, message, options);
  });

  serverMessages.listen('serverMessage:warning', function (subject, message, options) {
    Notifications.warn(subject, message, options);
  });

  serverMessages.listen('serverMessage:success', function (subject, message, options) {
    Notifications.success(subject, message, options);
  });

  serverMessages.listen('serverMessage:error', function (subject, message, options) {
    Notifications.error(subject, message, options);
  });

Now you can push a notification to the server with the following code on the server:

serverMessages.notify('serverMessage:error', 'Error subject', 'Error message');

All contributions are welcome! Please submit pull requests. Please add tests and make sure everything is green!

To run the unit tests execute the following command from within your checkout:

meteor test-packages ./

To make my life and yours easier I've also created some basic UI tests for this project. They are stored in the meteor-notifications-example repository.

After each new version the example page is updated to use the latest version, after which travis runs the UI tests. But you can ofcourse also run them locally.

1. Clone the example page repo
2. From within your checkout run the following commands:

mkdir -p app/packages
ln -s #YourNotificationsPackageCheckoutDirectory# app/packages/gfk:notifications

3. Make sure you have the example page running on port 3000
4. From within the example page repo checkout run: ```nightwatch -c firefoxDev

The example page is also a good place to debug/check your new functionality. Consider adding a example of the new functionality and creating a PR for that too!

To create a notification

First add the following to the template you want to be the parent for your notifications.

{{> notifications}}

Then run the following code in your application to spawn a notification of the type of the method you use to spawn it:

Notifications.warn('title', 'message');
Notifications.error('title', 'message');
Notifications.info('title', 'message');
Notifications.success('title', 'message');

To change the animation speed or the hideAnimationProperties, you need to change the Notifications.settings object.

Example:

Meteor.startup(function () {
    Notifications.settings.animationSpeed = 500;
});

Default options to be used for each notification can be changed in the Notifications.defaultOptions object.

Example:

Meteor.startup(function () {
    _.extend(Notifications.defaultOptions, {
        timeout: 5000
    });
});

Optionally, you can also provide type-specific options by changing the Notifications.defaultOptionsByType object.

Meteor.startup(function () {
    //Give Error notifications a longer timeout
    Notifications.defaultOptionsByType[Notifications.TYPES.ERROR] = _.defaults({
        timeout: 10000
    },
    Notifications.defaultOptions);
});

To restyle the notifications check the styleSheet and create your own stylesheet that overrides the classes defined in the bundled style. For instance, if you want to make the success notifications red you would add the following:

li.notification {
    &.success {
        background-color: #F00;
    }
}

Creates an instance of Notifications.

Adds a notification.

• String title of the notification
• String message of the notification
• Object [options={}] Options object to use for notification
• String [options.type=defaultOptions.type] the type of the notification
• Boolean [options.userCloseable=defaultOptions.userCloseable] Whether the notification is user closeable
• Boolean [options.clickBodyToClose=defaultOptions.clickBodyToClose] Whether the notification can be closed by clicking anywhere in the body. If turned off then the user must click the close button.
• Number [options.timeout=defaultOptions.timeout] No. of milliseconds after which this notification should automatically be closed. Use 0 to disable this.
• Function [options.closed] Call this handler (passing data context) on notification close
• Function [options.onBodyClick] Call this handler (passing data context) on notification body click

• String id of the added notification.

Wraps addNotification, sets type to error.

• String title of the notification
• String message of the notification
• Object [options={}] Options object to use for notification
• Boolean [options.userCloseable=defaultOptions.userCloseable] Whether the notification is user closeable
• Boolean [options.clickBodyToClose=defaultOptions.clickBodyToClose] Whether the notification can be closed by clicking anywhere in the body. If turned off then the user must click the close button.
• Number [options.timeout=defaultOptions.timeout] No. of milliseconds after which this notification should automatically be closed. Use 0 to disable this.
• Function [options.closed] Call this handler (passing data context) on notification close
• Function [options.onBodyClick] Call this handler (passing data context) on notification body click

• String id of the added notification.

Wraps addNotification, sets type to warning

• String title of the notification
• String message of the notification
• Object [options={}] Options object to use for notification
• Boolean [options.userCloseable=defaultOptions.userCloseable] Whether the notification is user closeable
• Boolean [options.clickBodyToClose=defaultOptions.clickBodyToClose] Whether the notification can be closed by clicking anywhere in the body. If turned off then the user must click the close button.
• Number [options.timeout=defaultOptions.timeout] No. of milliseconds after which this notification should automatically be closed. Use 0 to disable this.
• Function [options.closed] Call this handler (passing data context) on notification close
• Function [options.onBodyClick] Call this handler (passing data context) on notification body click

• String id of the added notification.

Wraps addNotification, sets type to info

• String title of the notification
• String message of the notification
• Object [options={}] Options object to use for notification
• Boolean [options.userCloseable=defaultOptions.userCloseable] Whether the notification is user closeable
• Boolean [options.clickBodyToClose=defaultOptions.clickBodyToClose] Whether the notification can be closed by clicking anywhere in the body. If turned off then the user must click the close button.
• Number [options.timeout=defaultOptions.timeout] No. of milliseconds after which this notification should automatically be closed. Use 0 to disable this.
• Function [options.closed] Call this handler (passing data context) on notification close
• Function [options.onBodyClick] Call this handler (passing data context) on notification body click

• String id of the added notification.

Wraps addNotification, sets type to success

• String title of the notification
• String message of the notification
• Object [options={}] Options object to use for notification
• Boolean [options.userCloseable=defaultOptions.userCloseable] Whether the notification is user closeable
• Boolean [options.clickBodyToClose=defaultOptions.clickBodyToClose] Whether the notification can be closed by clicking anywhere in the body. If turned off then the user must click the close button.
• Number [options.timeout=defaultOptions.timeout] No. of milliseconds after which this notification should automatically be closed. Use 0 to disable this.
• Function [options.closed] Call this handler (passing data context) on notification close
• Function [options.onBodyClick] Call this handler (passing data context) on notification body click

• String id of the added notification.

Gets the class containing the color for the notification

• String notificationType

Removes the notifications matching the mongo query selector

• selector Mongo query selector

Example:

// Create Notification
var notificationId = Notifications.success('title', 'message');
// Remove exisiting notification sometime between [0,5) seconds
Meteor.setTimeout( function () {
    Notifications.remove({ _id: notificationId });
}, Math.Random() * 5000 );

Stores constants for the different notification types

Object with the default options for the notifications

Object with the default options for the notifications for specific types