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A small prototype to pioneer the use of web-push notifications to iOS and Android devices in my hacker clan.

Apple first announced web-push support for Safari in June 2022¹, but only added iOS support in March of 2023². Apple published documentation on the matter which conforms to web standards³.

You don’t need to join the Apple Developer Program to send web push notifications.

To learn about web push, you need to understand service workers.

Notes

• Registering a service worker
• Microsoft article on push notifications
• Article on push notifications
• Service Worker Cookbook entry on push clients
• Served with NGROK
• Followed this codelab tutorial
• Hand drawn favicon :D

Development

Something like:

pip install flask
python3 app.py

Footnotes

1. "Meet Web Push" ↩

2. Web Push Announced for iPhone ↩

3. MDN: Push API ↩