Using MobileFirst Foundation 8.0's Push Service REST API in a Node.js-based server
Thomas Südbröcker May 07, 2018
MobileFirst_Foundation Push_Notifications NodeJS Bluemix Mobile_Foundation
Overview
It is nice and easy to send simple push notifications in MobileFirst Foundation 8.0 (from the MobileFirst Operations Console or via REST API), but how do you send push notifications which provides more complex data such as when temperature is low, when you’re driving too fast and so on. If you are an on-premise 8.0 customer or Mobile Foundation service customer, then read further to learn how to send push notifications which provides more complex information. To that end, I’ve implemented a mobile application that integrates several Bluemix services related to IoT, Watson services and so on.
Getting the Authorization key with Postman is not flexible enough, so instead I wrote a self-Authorization node.js module. This module enables me to easily creat different instances on one or more Node.js servers.
To get started, lets watch a video.
Sample project
The Nodejs module I have created is available for download from this GitHub.com repository.
Please note tha this is only the Nodejs server. I expect you to have an already functioning application with push notifications capability. To quickly setup such an app, you can use the sample application provided in the MobileFirst Foundation Developer Center.
For setup instructions, refer to the GitHub repository.
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