Hi, I’m running a Meteor/Apollo/React stack and I was curious on how people are handling push notifications.
I came across raix:push which is a fork of the original raix:push but they both don’t like they’re actively maintained.
I’ve also found react-push-notifications but I’m not sure if I should be getting a React package for this or relying on Meteor to get this done.
Would love to hear some ideas, thank you.
activitree:push is based on Firebase for all IOS, Android and Web. For web, it requires a web worker all documented in the repo. Just a heads up if you go there, the github content is not a Meteor project, it only shows where different files and folders should exist. You can look at it as a folder structure rather than a meteor project that you can run in your development machine.
We support notifications on mobile, in browsers and via email – including some specialized variations of these. We’re vanilla Cordova, thus:
Client-side, on mobile, we use the cordova-plugin-push. For browsers, we use the JavaScript Notification API. And email of course just calls Meteor mail.
Server-side, we are using NPM’s apn and node-gcm. These are older, but certainly tried and true 
Keep in mind, while Google simply authenticates with an ID, Apple uses certs. You’ll need to attach those, presumably decrypting the source versions, as part of your build.
I use OneSignal, see more details on this example examples/cordova at main · meteor/examples · GitHub
I’m going to finish this example soon.
Also, I’m going to talk about Mobile apps with Meteor in our next meetup, add to your calendar Community Meetups
I use activitree:push for mobile push notifications and a custom web worker for browser notifications.