Push notifications

In Tiki25, we added support for Realtime Tiki. We'll let this mature a bit and explore a Web Push Notifications package in Tiki26.

In this page I describe some package proposals that I found, Do not hesitate to add other packages if you have an idea.

minishlink/web-push

This package is available at https://packagist.org/packages/minishlink/web-push,

This is the most popular one I found, it allows to send notifications to terminals whose server delivers the Web Push notifications as described in the Web Push protocol. As it is standardized.

Advantage

• The library is very popular with more than 2,811,514 installations
• There is an active community around the library, see: https://github.com/web-push-libs/web-push-php.
• Easy integration and does not require any other installation

Disadvantages

• There is no support and maintenance for older versions of PHP (from 7.2)

spomky-labs/web-push-lib

This package is available at https://packagist.org/packages/spomky-labs/web-push-lib

This library also allows notifications to be sent to compatible browsers.

Advantage

• Easy to integrate as for the first

Disadvantages

• it's not too popular with just 4,217 installs.
• Requires an additional library installation: nyholm/prs7 and symfony/http-client

  
  

laravel-notification-channels/webpush

This package is available at https://packagist.org/packages/laravel-notification-channels/webpush,
It's also a good library for web push, but its implementation is made with the Laravel framework, so with Tiki it really won't be the right choice.

Advantage

• Easy to integrate as for the first
• Offers several options

Disadvantages

• necessarily linked to the Laravel framework

Mercure

• https://mercure.rocks/docs/mercure
• https://packagist.org/packages/symfony/mercure

• https://notifications.spec.whatwg.org/
• Realtime