How to Push Notifications using PushOver in Node.js

Even wanted to get custom push notifications without the complexity of building your app and maintaining it?

That's where PushOver comes in.

Once it is configured, you can get a real-time notification to your devices (Android, iPhone, iPad, and Desktop) using their API.

And you can customize its sound, message content, icon, etc with a simple API

To use that API, we'll need to configure your PUSHOVER_USER_KEY and PUSHOVER_API_TOKEN to make the request.

For that, we'll need to create an account, and then get a license for the device on which you want push notifications. And it costs roughly ~$5 one-time purchase per client (meaning, you can get a single Android/iOS client license and use it on all the devices that you own)

That's pretty much it.

Here's the snippet that I generally use for sending push notifications in Node.js

npm install axios

import axios from 'axios';
const PUSHOVER_USER_KEY = process.env.PUSHOVER_USER_KEY;
const PUSHOVER_API_TOKEN = process.env.PUSHOVER_API_TOKEN;


const PUSHOVER_MSG_URL = 'https://api.pushover.net/1/messages.json';

const pushOverDefaults = {
    user: PUSHOVER_USER_KEY,
    token: PUSHOVER_API_TOKEN,
};

export const sendPushOverNotification = async payload => {
    const data = {
        ...pushOverDefaults,
        ...payload,
    };

    try {
        const res = await axios.default.post(PUSHOVER_MSG_URL, data);
        return res.data;
    } catch (error) {
        // Ensure confidential information are not printed in public build logs
        if (error && error.config && error.config.data) {
            delete error.config.data;
        }

        if (error.response.status === 400) {
            console.log(
                'Failed to send Pushover.net message possibly due to invalid token/user or your application is over its quota.'
            );
            console.log(
                'Please check Pushover docs for more details: https://pushover.net/api#friendly'
            );
        }

        if (error.response.data) {
            console.log(error.response.data);
        }

        throw error;
    }
};
export default sendPushOverNotification;

Happy Push Notifications!