how to i send HTTP request for sending notification in firebase? - node.js

Question

To send a notification, you'll need to send the following HTTP request:
POST /fcm/send HTTP/1.1
Host: fcm.googleapis.com
Content-Type: application/json
Authorization: key=YOUR_SERVER_KEY
{
"notification": {
"title": "New chat message!",
"body": "There is a new message in FriendlyChat",
"icon": "/images/profile_placeholder.png",
"click_action": "http://localhost:5000"
},
"to":"YOUR_DEVICE_TOKEN"
}
how can I do this??

Answer 1

If you're using Node.JS, I suggest you look at the documentation for Firebase's Node.JS SDK instead of manually sending HTTP requests. There's the official documentation or this nice tutorial
If you still want to go for the plain HTTP method, you can use the request npm module
$ npm install request
then in your code :
const request = require('request');
request({
url: 'https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send',
method: 'POST',
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": ['key', yourServerKey].join('=')
},
json: {
to: clientFirebaseToken,
notification: {
title: "Notification Title",
body: "This is a neat little notification, right ?"
}
});
Edit
From their GitHub
As of Feb 11th 2020, request is fully deprecated. No new changes are
expected to land. In fact, none have landed for some time.
If you use axios
axios({
method: 'post',
url: 'https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send',
headers: {
"Content-Type": "application/json",
"Authorization": ['key', yourServerKey].join('=')
},
params: {
to: clientFirebaseToken,
notification: {
title: "Notification Title",
body: "Neat indeed !"
}
}
})

Answer 2

If you are using React JS/ React Native, using the Axios package it can be done very easily, the sample code is below, first, you have to register for firebase cloud messaging to get the authorization key
axios.post(
'https://fcm.googleapis.com/fcm/send',
{
data: {},
notification: {
title: "Sample text1",
body: "Sample text2",
image: "Sample text3",
},
to: '/topics/TopicName',
},
{
headers: {
Authorization:
'key=Authorization key from firebase',
},
},
)
.then(Response => {
console.log(Response.data);
});