In some respects, my latest Joy of Rails article has been eight years in the making.
It’s been about that long since I started experimenting with Progressive Web Apps and Rails. Now that Rails 8 will make Rails PWA-ready, it’s time more devs took note.
https://joyofrails.com/articles/web-push-notifications-from-rails
Integrating Web Push notifications in your app can be a little tedious. Rails 8 promises to provide a new framework (Action Notifier) to make things easier.
If you want to learn how Web Push works or even how you could add it to your Rails app today, my article can help.
Luckily, the hairy details of Web Push on the server side (like Voluntary Application server Identification (VAPID)) are abstracted away in the web-push Ruby gem.
(I should know, I wrote its initial implementation of the VAPID protocol 😅)
If you’re looking for even more information about Web Push, check out the Pushpad blog. Not only does Pushpad share a lot of related content, but they also own maintain the web-push Ruby gem.
Ross
