React-native-notifications: Questions about Silence of Maintainers

Created on 3 Mar 2020 · 19Comments · Source: wix/react-native-notifications

react-native-push-notification has been abandoned for a while, so this package is pretty much the only well-done, free and maintained package for RN push notifications now.
It seems like you guys are maintaining the project, because commits are still coming in. But y'alls are so silent in regards to issues and PRs. How come?

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andersonaddo

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Yes, but the package doesn't handle notifications in general well anymore because they cut support for it recently.

Yeah, they have a paid package now - https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase/issues/2566#issuecomment-578762231

Is this package not useable for production apps? I'm running into problems already and I have barely started.

You can but you more or less have to look through issues and PR's to piece together a working package. For me this included https://github.com/wix/react-native-notifications/pull/496, https://github.com/wix/react-native-notifications/pull/502 and https://github.com/wix/react-native-notifications/issues/517. There may be more depending on what you're intending to do. My implementation was fairly basic.

puremana on 5 Mar 2020

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They aren't maintaining it, hence why all of the PRs to fix and make this useable. It is depressing to look at 50% of the PRs getting closed from stalebot just because the owners don't want to review. I hope someone steps up and becomes more active but I really don't see that happening looking at this history of issues.

puremana on 4 Mar 2020

Hm.
That's very unfortunate - that means there's no free and maintained package for cross-platform React Native push notifications. That's strange, since it's a very important feature for many apps.
React Native Community have a maintained package for iOS notifications, hopefully they'll take up one for Android (or, even better, cross platform). I know they were having discussions about that in the past.

andersonaddo on 4 Mar 2020

One solution could be for someone to fork this, make the changes and actively review and respond to PRs and issues. All you would need is to set docs and publish this as a package.

_(Looking at the license I see nothing limiting you from doing this)_

puremana on 4 Mar 2020

Is this package not useable for production apps? I'm running into problems already and I have barely started.

1vanhelsing1 on 5 Mar 2020

Oh it's usable.
I know there are some issues with linking, but that's about it. Proper looking requires going through a few GitHub issues to see what problems people have run into.

andersonaddo on 5 Mar 2020

I think there are some alternatives if you don't intend to have local notifications, like react-native-firebase

roni-castro on 5 Mar 2020

Yes, but the package doesn't handle notifications in general well anymore because they cut support for it recently.

andersonaddo on 5 Mar 2020

Yes, but the package doesn't handle notifications in general well anymore because they cut support for it recently.

Yeah, they have a paid package now - https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase/issues/2566#issuecomment-578762231

Is this package not useable for production apps? I'm running into problems already and I have barely started.

puremana on 5 Mar 2020

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@puremana not to mention the #525 issue which I'm facing right now! I receive the notification on Android but it has no title nor Body.
:((((
Having a hard time here!

tattivitorino on 17 Mar 2020

@tattivitorino try implementing this PR https://github.com/wix/react-native-notifications/pull/496, I had the same issue

puremana on 17 Mar 2020

@puremana do you think it's safe and ok to use this https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package to implement this PR? I've never done it!

tattivitorino on 17 Mar 2020

@puremana do you think it's safe and ok to use this https://www.npmjs.com/package/patch-package to implement this PR? I've never done it!

Looks good to me

puremana on 17 Mar 2020

@puremana thank you! the PR #496 fixed the title and body in the foreground notification, but the icon is not showing! Any insights?

tattivitorino on 18 Mar 2020

@puremana thank you! the PR #496 fixed the title and body in the foreground notification, but the icon is not showing! Any insights?

Is the icon not showing for both the foreground and background. or just the background? This may help - #517

puremana on 18 Mar 2020

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luisfuertes on 7 Apr 2020

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@luisfuertes I suggest you make your own issue for this.
I'd prefer if people only comment on this thread if they're talking about the maintenance of this repo.

andersonaddo on 7 Apr 2020

@andersonaddo its ok

luisfuertes on 8 Apr 2020

This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had recent activity. It will be closed if no further activity occurs.