danielmai / simple-push-demo-backend

Back End for the Simple Service Worker Push Demo

This repo contains a basic server to take a restful request containing a subscription ID and a GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) endpoint and make a request to GCM to send a push message.

Using the Demo

I have only tested this out on my OS X machine, for testing the server out locally I use the Google App Engine Launcher.

I'm afraid I don't know how to use the App Engine server on other platforms but there should be a way to use the project.

The frontend is a git submodule of this repo. If all you want is to test out push, follow the instructions on that page.

Send a Push to GCM

If you just want to use the server to send a push message through GCM, then you need to send a POST request with the subscriptionId and endpoint pieces of info as form data.

Below is a simple example making a fetch:

var formData = new FormData();
formData.append('subscriptionId', subscriptionId);
formData.append('endpoint', pushEndPoint);

fetch(PUSH_SERVER_URL + '/send_push', {
    method: 'post',
    body: formData
  }).then(function(response) {
    // NOOP
  }).catch(function(err) {
    console.log('Fetch Error :-S', err);
  });