atom-notifier: GNTP for Atom

[mikaelbr]

Project description

Implement a Growl Notification Transport Protocol (GNTP) server for Atom.

Atom has it's own built in notification system, where you get a message in the upper right corner. This is easily pluggable by creating an atom plugin. This can be combined with the specification of the Growl Notification protocolo to create a server that listens for notifications on a port. In that way you don't have to install any third party applications to get notifications, you can isolate your notifications to your developer environment.

This is relevant as many programming tools uses notifications, such as testing frameworks (like mocha-notifier-reporter or jest) uses node-notifier to do their notification. And node-notifier falls back to Growl notifications if nothing else is found. This way you can get your notifications directly to your editor, in a cross platform and non-intrusive way.

Relevant Technology

JavaScript, Node.js, node-notifier, Growl, Growl Notification Transfer Protocol, Atom, Atom-plugin

Who is this for

People who want to try to make Atom plugins.