Push Notifications — FCM and Web Push
To deliver messages on mobile or web while the app is closed, the push channels provided by the OS or the browser must be traversed. iOS has APNs, Android has FCM, and the web has the Web Push standard.
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To deliver messages on mobile or web while the app is closed, the push channels provided by the OS or the browser must be traversed. iOS has APNs, Android has FCM, and the web has the Web Push standard.
Firebase started as a small startup in 2011 and was acquired by Google in 2014. Being a managed-first service, "no way to run it locally" was the right answer for a long time, but in March 2020 the picture changed when…