Solid Notifications

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  1. How do I display the Solid notifications directly on a Solid app rather than redirect the user to the inbox?

  2. How do I make sure that when I add a friend or share a route that the notifications appear in my inbox?

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Using websocket API https://github.com/solid/solid-spec/blob/master/api-websockets.md but don’t work on folders ( for the moment?), so I use a log.ttl file too

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There are three things one might call “a notification”:

  • an inbox message. This is what the LDN spec calls a “notification”
  • a pub message in websockets-pubsub. This notifies the in-browser app that something on the pod changed, e.g. a new inbox item arrived (but see @Smag0’s comment above).
  • a desktop or phone notification as described on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/notification

You can have a look at https://solid-notify.5apps.com/ (source code: https://github.com/michielbdejong/solid-notify). It sends a desktop notification when a websockets-pubsub notification indicates that an LDN notification arrived in your inbox. :smiley: That code at least used to work a year ago, although it gave me an error when i tried it just now.

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Error for me too

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Hello,

You must give permissions to the web to be able to write to your inbox. You can enable this in your preferences

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@Verdejo55
Thank you :+1::blush:

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Hello,
I mean your first point. Leave him a message in his inbox. I suppose it is done with a POST request. What I do is count the items that I have in that folder. But I don’t understand what is LDN?

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Hi again, everybody.
Thank you very much for all the responses. We have already managed to send a notification and stay in the inbox. We send a .ttl file with various relevant information. Have a nice day

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