Creation of mechanism to send message to users' mobile

aditya-garg-09-01-2002 commented 2 weeks ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Allow developers to send messages to their users' mobile, this mechanism is necessary.
This will serve as an alternate mechanism for sending OTPs.

Describe the solution you'd like

Utilsation of third-party APIs like twilio possibly to allow developers sending message.
Developers will need to setup API keys to enable this mode of communication.
Documentation shall be added as well at later stage.
Updating /src/utils/communication.ts to create a new function to send message to a phone number.
Cost of sending prices can be communicated in case they are chargeable, thus of concern to developers.

Additional context

Creation of a message template will be a follow up issue.
Integration of sendMessage utility function into messageOTP function in src/utils/communication.ts to send OTPs as well.

Mukku27 commented 2 weeks ago

@aditya-garg-09-01-2002 please assign the issue to me

aditya-garg-09-01-2002 commented 2 weeks ago

Assigned this task to you @Mukku27
This issue will comprise of creation of mechanism to send the OTP as message itself.
Information on how to create API credentials, at least do let us know in comments so proper documentation can be done further.
How the message, that is to be sent, can be formatted.
Files concerned - src/utils/communication.ts
Do let me know for any help.

aditya-garg-09-01-2002 / commencer