pushnot

Thai's personal push notification server written in Node.js. A combination of:

• zephyros for alerts and node-zephyros for a promise-based Node.js interface.
• express for building HTTP API.
• ursa for encrypting the Notification text.
• zeromq and zeromq.node for pubsub server.
• leveldb and [node-levelup][] for local database.
• growl and node-growl for another notification system.
• hawk for HTTP authentication so that I don't have to roll my own.

The Components

It consists of several components:

The Server

• lets the client send a notification to the server
• publish the latest notification ID through a zeromq pubsub socket.
• lets subscribers get the notification data through an HTTP api.

The Client

• encrypts the notification message and post it to the server

The CLI

• a command line interface to the client. lets user type pushnot app_name message to send a push notification, for use in shell scripts.

The Subscriber

• a zephyros script that subscribes to new notification messages and display an alert and send to growl.

Getting Started

Read the blog post for how to install.