Questions about Silence of Maintainers

[andersonaddo]

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?

[puremana]

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.

[andersonaddo]

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.

[puremana]

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)

[grantvanhelsing]

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

[andersonaddo]

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.

[roni-castro]

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

[andersonaddo]

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

[puremana]

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 - invertase/react-native-firebase#2566 (comment)

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 #496, #502 and #517. There may be more depending on what you're intending to do. My implementation was fairly basic.

[tattivitorino]

@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!

[puremana]

@tattivitorino try implementing this PR #496, I had the same issue

[tattivitorino]

@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!

[puremana]

@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

[tattivitorino]

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

[puremana]

@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

[luisfuertes]

+1