FCM-push notification

Server push configuration

Install firebase-admin, which is for server-side.

npm install firebase-admin

Generate private key for the project.

1. Navigate to https://console.firebase.google.com/project/_/settings/serviceaccounts/adminsdk
2. Select the project
3. Go to Service accounts tab
4. Click Generate new private key to generate private key
5. Download and store the json file

Create an index.js in your project, and paste the following code into it.

import * as admin from 'firebase-admin';
const certificate = require("path/to/serviceAccountKey.json");

admin.initializeApp({
    credential: admin.credential.cert(certificate)
});

Client configuration

Install the required products or libraries.

1. Navigate to https://firebase.google.com/docs/web/setup
2. Select With npm tab if you are using npm or yarn, else select From the CDN tab
3. Import the core SDK. Eg: <script src="https://www.gstatic.com/firebasejs/8.7.1/firebase-app.js"></script>
4. Go to https://firebase.google.com/docs/web/setup#libraries-cdn, expand using bundler with modules if your are using npm else expand from the CDN.
5. Look for Cloud Messaging and import it.

Generate public key

1. Navigate to https://console.firebase.google.com/u/0/project/_/settings/cloudmessaging
2. Select your project
3. Go to Cloud Messaging tab
4. Click Generate key pair
5. Copy the generated key pair for later use

** Note ** You must create firebase-messaging-sw.js to make this work

Example code

• https://github.com/firebase/quickstart-js/tree/master/messaging