APNs Send

The apns-send npm package enables seamless integration of push notifications using the Apple Push Notification service (APNs) with the HTTP/2 protocol.

Create Client

Create an APNS client using a signing key:

import { ApnsClient } from 'apns-send'

const client = new ApnsClient({
  team: `TFLP87PW54`,
  keyId: `123ABC456`,
  signingKey: fs.readFileSync(`${__dirname}/path/to/auth.p8`),
  defaultTopic: `com.tablelist.Tablelist`,
})

Sending Notifications

Basic

Send a basic notification with message:

import { Notification } from 'apns-send'

const bn = new Notification(deviceToken, { alert: 'Hello, World' })

try {
  await client.send(bn)
} catch (err) {
  console.error(err.reason)
}

Send a basic notification with message and options:

import { Notification } from 'apns-send'

const bn = new Notification(deviceToken, {
  alert: 'Hello, World',
  badge: 4,
  data: {
    userId: user.getUserId,
  },
})

try {
  await client.send(bn)
} catch (err) {
  console.error(err.reason)
}

Silent

Send a silent notification using content-available key:

import { SilentNotification } from 'apns-send'

const sn = new SilentNotification(deviceToken)

try {
  await client.send(sn)
} catch (err) {
  console.error(err.reason)
}

Note: Apple recommends that no options other than the content-available flag be sent in order for a notification to truly be silent and wake up your app in the background. Therefore this class does not accept any additional options in the constructor.

Many

Send multiple notifications concurrently:

import { Notification } from 'apns-send'

const notifications = [
  new Notification(deviceToken1, { alert: 'Hello, World' }),
  new Notification(deviceToken2, { alert: 'Hello, World' }),
]

try {
  await client.sendMany(notifications)
} catch (err) {
  console.error(err.reason)
}

Advanced

For complete control over the push notification packet use the base Notification class:

import { Notification } from 'apns-send'

const notification = new Notification(deviceToken, {
  aps: { ... }
})

try {
  await client.send(notification)
} catch(err) {
  console.error(err.reason)
}

Available options can be found at APNS Payload Options

Error Handling

All errors are defined in ./lib/errors.js and come directly from APNS Table 4

Environments

By default the APNS client connects to the production push notification server. This is identical to passing in the options:

const client = new ApnsClient({
  host: 'api.push.apple.com'
  ...
})

To connect to the development push notification server, pass the options:

const client = new ApnsClient({
  host: 'api.sandbox.push.apple.com'
  ...
})