Traditionally, one of the main ways to bring users back to your website/web app is through email newsletters. While email newsletters can be used effectively, the Clickthrough Rate (CTR) when compared to web push notifications is significantly less.
When used appropriately, web push notifications can drive more engagement to your web app. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to add this functionality to your web app.
What you’ll learn
- How to subscribe and unsubscribe a user for push messaging with Firebase
- How to handle incoming push messages
- How to display a notification
- How to respond to notification clicks
- How to send push notifications using cloud functions