Notification Service

This is a Notification service build with nodejs, it uses express, mongoose and firebase-admin sdk to send notifications. It let you

1. subscribe a user to the notifications, subscribe a user to a certain topic.
2. send notification to all the subscribed users, to a specific user or users, to a group of users with a common topic.
3. send sms to all the subscribed users, to a specific user or users. (you have to integrate with an sms provider)
4. refresh a certain user's firebase token.

Instructions

To Run the Project:

• clone the repo or download it
• cd into the directory of the project from the terminal
• head to the Firebase console
• create a new project from the firebase console and give it a name, or select an existing project.
• go to your project's settings, then to service accounts, then generate new private key and download it.
• rename serviceAccountKey.json.example to serviceAccountKey.json
• copy the content of the private key file you just downloaded into serviceAccountKey.json
• configure your mongo database in mongoose.js in my case i use a free cluster at MongoDB Atlas, and it's password will be in nodemon.json.example then rename it to nodemon.json
• install all project dependencies with npm install
• run the project with npm start and it will be listening at localhost:3000
• test the project with npm test

To Run the Service with Docker:

• make sure that docker and docker-compose are installed.
• run sudo docker-compose up it will be listening at localhost:3000

The API contains 8 endpoints You can see a full Documentation for the API and examples from here

1. /subscribe
   • /
   • /:topic
2. /notifications
   • /
   • /notifications/toAll
   • /notifications/toGroup
3. /sms
   • /
   • /toAll
4. /refreshToken