electron-notification-shim

Get Notification API events in Electron main-process. Perfect for adding Notification toasters in Windows with node-notifier or other solution.

Install

$ npm install --save electron-notification-shim

Usage

Include it in your rendering-view like this:

require('electron-notification-shim')();

That's all. Now you'll receive notification-shim events in your main-process, like this:

ipcMain.on('notification-shim', (e, msg) => { ... });

The msg is a simple object: { title, options }, which matches the two parameters sent to new Notification(title, options). You can send an event back with e.returnValue or e.sender.send() if you want to react to it in the rendering view as well.

Example code

Demos

Check the electron-notification-shim-demos page for different uses.

Sample

// Main process, main.js
'use strict';
const path = require('path');
const app = require('app');
const ipcMain = require('electron').ipcMain;
const BrowserWindow = require('browser-window');

app.on('ready', () => {
    const win = new BrowserWindow({
        webPreferences: {
            // Load `electron-notification-shim` in rendering view.
            preload: path.join(__dirname, 'browser.js')
        }
    });

    // Listen for notification events.
    ipcMain.on('notification-shim', (e, msg) => {
        console.log(`Title: ${msg.title}, Body: ${msg.options.body}`);
    });

    // Just to test. Don't do this at home, kids. :)
    win.loadURL(`https://google.com`);
    win.webContents.on('did-finish-load', () => {
        win.webContents.executeJavaScript('new Notification("Hello!", {body: "Notification world!"})');
    });
});

// Renderer process, browser.js
require('electron-notification-shim')();