How to send a notification to device using firebase admin - node.js

Question

I am adding notification support to an app. I'm using react native firebase for the react native client and am able to receive notification sent by the console.
However, when I send the notification using the firebase admin tool no notification is received.
firebase admin is initialised once on server startup
let admin = require('firebase-admin')
let serviceAccount = require('../../appname-firebase-admin.json')
admin.initializeApp({
credential: admin.credential.cert(serviceAccount),
databaseURL: 'https://appname-12e14.firebaseio.com',
})
console.log('initialise firebase admin')
and then I've made this test function based on the firebase admin documentation
async function sendNotification() {
let admin = require('firebase-admin')
let registrationToken =
'super-long-token-goes-here'
let message = {
notification: { title: 'Super title', body: 'this is a test' },
token: registrationToken,
}
admin
.messaging()
.send(message)
.then(response => {
// Response is a message ID string.
console.log('Successfully sent notification:', response)
return { success: true }
})
.catch(error => {
console.log('Error sending notification:', error)
})
return {
success: true,
}
}
this results in
Successfully sent notification: projects/appname-12e14/messages/0:1574700947563522%48f1ba652348f1ba99
with no notification on the device.
edit: I've also tried using .sendToDevice()

Answer 1

React-native-firebase does display the notifications in an open app, you can create a custom notification and use the component you like to show it in app. Alternatively you can use a third-party service like Notify, which has a simple API to manage them.