Published on April 23, 2022

Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using NodeJs

Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using NodeJs

When developing software, there is a need for a way to track important events and be notified when something happens. LogSnag provides an easy way to track important events and be notified in real-time on your Desktop, Phone, and SmartWatch.

Our API makes it very easy for anyone to integrate LogSnag into their NodeJs code. You can simply send an HTTP request to our API with any additional information you like, and we will take care of the rest.

Setting up LogSnag with NodeJs is as easy as using our code snippets with no custom modules required.

Set up your LogSnag account

  1. Head to LogSnag.com and create your free account.
  2. Create a new project from your dashboard.
  3. Copy your API token from the API settings.

Log your events via NodeJs

  1. Copy one of the following code snippets into your text editor
  2. Replace your API token, project name, and channel name.
  3. Run your NodeJs code!

NodeJs snippets for LogSnag

Send notifications using NodeJs and Axios
const axios = require('axios');
let data = JSON.stringify({
"project": "my-saas",
"channel": "waitlist",
"event": "Waitlist Member",
"description": "email: john@example.com",
"icon": "🔥",
"notify": true
});

let config = {
method: 'post',
maxBodyLength: Infinity,
url: 'https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log',
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
},
data : data
};

axios.request(config)
.then((response) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify(response.data));
})
.catch((error) => {
console.log(error);
});
Send notifications using NodeJs and Native
var https = require('follow-redirects').https;
var fs = require('fs');

var options = {
'method': 'POST',
'hostname': 'api.logsnag.com',
'path': '/v1/log',
'headers': {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
},
'maxRedirects': 20
};

var req = https.request(options, function (res) {
var chunks = [];

res.on("data", function (chunk) {
chunks.push(chunk);
});

res.on("end", function (chunk) {
var body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
console.log(body.toString());
});

res.on("error", function (error) {
console.error(error);
});
});

var postData = JSON.stringify({
"project": "my-saas",
"channel": "waitlist",
"event": "Waitlist Member",
"description": "email: john@example.com",
"icon": "🔥",
"notify": true
});

req.write(postData);

req.end();
Send notifications using NodeJs and Request
var request = require('request');
var options = {
'method': 'POST',
'url': 'https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log',
'headers': {
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
},
body: JSON.stringify({
"project": "my-saas",
"channel": "waitlist",
"event": "Waitlist Member",
"description": "email: john@example.com",
"icon": "🔥",
"notify": true
})

};
request(options, function (error, response) {
if (error) throw new Error(error);
console.log(response.body);
});
Send notifications using NodeJs and Unirest
var unirest = require('unirest');
var req = unirest('POST', 'https://api.logsnag.com/v1/log')
.headers({
'Content-Type': 'application/json',
'Authorization': 'Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN'
})
.send(JSON.stringify({
"project": "my-saas",
"channel": "waitlist",
"event": "Waitlist Member",
"description": "email: john@example.com",
"icon": "🔥",
"notify": true
}))
.end(function (res) {
if (res.error) throw new Error(res.error);
console.log(res.raw_body);
});

Conclusion

Once an event is published, you get instant updates in real-time, and you could optionally turn on or off push notifications depending on the priority of your event.

Also, LogSnag makes it very easy to organize your events into different projects and channels depending on their topic and provides you with a global and project-wide feed so you can scroll through your events.

In addition, with our collaborative features, you can add team members to a project so that everyone can receive push notifications and updates, regardless of the desktop or mobile platform they are using.

You can learn more about our API by heading to docs.logsnag.com

Other use-cases for LogSnag

  1. Monitor your CI/CD build status for your NodeJs application
  2. Monitor your CPU usage in your NodeJs application
  3. Monitor when database goes down in your NodeJs application
  4. Monitor high disk usage in your NodeJs application
  5. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your NodeJs application
  6. Monitor failed logins in your NodeJs application
  7. Monitor failed payments for your NodeJs application
  8. Monitor memory usage in your NodeJs application
  9. Monitor MySQL downtime in your NodeJs application
  10. Monitor when a new feature is used in your NodeJs application
  11. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your NodeJs application
  12. Monitor Redis downtime in your NodeJs application
  13. Monitor suspicious activity in your NodeJs application
  14. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your NodeJs service
  15. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your NodeJs application
  16. Get a notification when your NodeJs code is done executing
  17. Track canceled subscriptions in your NodeJs application
  18. Track your NodeJs cron jobs
  19. Track when a file is uploaded to your NodeJs application
  20. Track when a form is submitted to your NodeJs application
  21. Track payment events via NodeJs
  22. Track user sign in events in NodeJs
  23. Track user signup events via NodeJs
  24. Track waitlist signup events via NodeJs
View all common use-cases with NodeJs