Notify on player increase.

[lukatarman]

Description

Implement the notification feature. Different possible implementations come into mind: email, rss feed, push notifications, sms. You can try the email notification first, it might be easier but it will need a mail server. The rss feed might be more complex to setup but doesn't need a mail server and can be subscribed to with an rss feed reader. Push notifications must be subscribed to with the frontend or something else where they can be displayed. SMS notification will cost something.

The notification feature should be designed for configuration but have a default settings in the beginning.

• notify via email (later rss, sms, whatever...) when player number increase reaches a threshold (define default threshold)
• the notification feature should not know through which means the actual notification is send by
  • use an abstraction
  • implement an infrastructure component which handles the actual sending
• the user should be able to add and remove games to and from the notification feature

Technical Design

• the notification should contain
  • game id and name
  • current players
  • % player increase
  • defined threshold
• every notification which is sent should also be stored to our DB, so that we know what we sent
• update subscribed data model
  • each game should have two notification rules
  • rule 1 (default): send a notification when % player increase threshold is exceeded
  • rule 2: when player number is exceeded
• add endpoint for activating notification for a subscribed game
  • POST /subscriptions/:id/notify
  • provide game id and rule number in body
• add endpoint for deactivating notification for a subscribed game
  • DELETE /subscriptions/:id/notify
  • provide game id and rule number in body

Resources

• send emails via node
• rss feed with nodejs
• push notifications in nodejs

[stas-at-ibm]

Can you clarify if this is possible and desirable?

Log in through steam officially. Set up so steam itself (the app) notifies you of a change, if possible?