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Send Notifications Through Node.js App! 🔥

Sujeet Gund — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 05:10:42 +0000

In this article, we are going to learn how we can create notifications/reminder in Windows/ MacOS with your Node.js app.

Approach:

To make a notification through our node app, we are going to use node-notifier package. It is already a quiet popular package with more than 9M weekly downloads!

About this package:

Steps:

Do the initial setup for node app.
Install the package:

yarn add node-notifier

npm install node-notifier

Quickstart with this short code: add this code in your index.js

const notifier = require('node-notifier');


// Object
notifier.notify({
  title: 'My notification',
  message: 'Hello, there!'
});

You can further add more custom option in it like icon, wait for user action, timeout, reply etc.

const notifier = require('node-notifier');
const path = require('path');

notifier.notify(
  {
    title: 'My awesome title',
    message: 'Hello from node, Mr. User!',
    icon: path.join(__dirname, 'coulson.jpg'), // Absolute path (doesn't work on balloons)
    sound: true, // Only Notification Center or Windows Toasters
    wait: true // Wait with callback, until user action is taken against notification, does not apply to Windows Toasters as they always wait or notify-send as it does not support the wait option
  },
  function (err, response, metadata) {
    // Response is response from notification
    // Metadata contains activationType, activationAt, deliveredAt
  }
);

notifier.on('click', function (notifierObject, options, event) {
  // Triggers if `wait: true` and user clicks notification
});

notifier.on('timeout', function (notifierObject, options) {
  // Triggers if `wait: true` and notification closes
});

💡 Note: This package has its own system requirements.

macOS: >= 10.8 for native notifications. _

Linux: _notify-osd or libnotify-bin installed (Ubuntu should have this by default) _

Windows: >= 8, or task bar balloons for Windows < 8.

And if not met any requirement then it will use Growl.

More know about this package on:

Github
npmjs

Hit like if you found this article interested and feel free to ask queries!

Also read:

How to send SMS with Nodejs App
Awesome VS Code Customizations

This VS Code customs combo is lit! 🔥

Sujeet Gund — Sat, 25 Jun 2022 11:55:00 +0000

When it comes to coding straight for hours, you might get it somehow boring too for sitting for a long period of time in front of a monitor. And you will wish for customizability within VS Code.

That's why in this article I will discuss about some popular trending customs for your VS Code for productivity! 🚀

1. Cascadia Code (FONT)

This is one of my favourite font family and recently I saw it is going quiet popular too.
To make cascadia code as your default font family in vs code follow following steps:

Open setting in VS Code
Search for font in search bar.
Add cascadia code in font family as shown in picture below.

Still you will not notice any changes, since you have to install Cascadia Code font family from microsoft.

Now extract the downloaded file and open ttf folder from extracted file and open following file to install font.

That's it ⚡, now reopen VS Code you will really love this font family, I swear.

💡 Note: If by chance, you font family doesn't applied then try to restart pc once. In 99% cases you would not have to restart the pc but in case something went wrong, just restart the pc and font will be applied!

2. Font Ligatures (FONT STYLE)

You might see someone writing following code,
an arrow function looks like this:

And triple equal to (===) looks like this:

It actually looks so awesome!✨ This all happens due to Font Ligature. Do you want to write like this? Here you have to do for this:

Open settings in VS Code. And search for font in search bar you will find following result.
Click on that tab and it will open settings.json file make the following change in it: Initially, you will see

"editor.fontLigatures": false,

Just replace false with true and all done! This effect will immediately apply on your editor.

"editor.fontLigatures": true,

3. Editor Theme

I personally love to use Cobalt2, But there are many good themes are available in VS Code Marketplace and using it from a long time

You can also try Material theme, JellyFish theme or Github theme etc.

Conclusion:

Here is a sample code when you apply all the above recommendations.

Hit like if you really like this article and feel free to ask queries in comment section. 🙏

Send SMS with Node.js App

Sujeet Gund — Fri, 24 Jun 2022 09:58:28 +0000

In this article, we are going to learn how we can send SMS or WhatsApp messages with your Node.js app.

Node.js is an open-source, cross-platform, back-end JavaScript runtime environment that runs on the V8 engine and executes JavaScript code outside a web browser.

Approach:

To send SMS and WhatsApp messages we are going to use the Twilio. The Twilio helps us to send SMS, make Calls within our Node.js app. So first, we will install the Twilio package with npm or yarn.

Get the Twilio Credentials:

Go to https://www.twilio.com/
Create a new account for trial.
Copy the account SID, auth token and provided phone number.

Create Node.js Application: You can start creating Node.js project by following command:

npm i

yarn

💡 Note: This will create a node_modules folder.

Install the required package: Now we will install the twilio and dotenv package using the below command:

npm i twilio dotenv

yarn add twilio dotenv

💡 Note: This will install twilio and dotenv package for your project.

Create following files in route directory:

app.js
.env

Your project structure should look like this:

Make Configuration: add following code in .env file.

TWILIO_SID=your-account-sid
TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN=your-account-token

⚠ WARNING: replace your-account-sid and your-account-token with your twilio credentials copied above!

To Send SMS: add following code in your app.js file.

require('dotenv').config()
const accountSID = process.env.TWILIO_SID;
const accountToken = process.env.TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN;

const client = require('twilio')(accountSID, accountToken);

// send a sms
client.messages.create({
    body: 'Hi, this is a test sms!',
    from: 'your-provided-phone-number',
    to: 'the-recipient-phone-number'
}).then(message => console.log(message));

⚠ WARNING: replace your-provided-phone-number with your provided dummy twilio phone number copied above! and the-recipient-phone-number with the phone number whom you want to give a sms.

Explanation:

In the above example first, we are using twilio service to send SMS. After that, we are installing twilio package along with dotenv for configuration with the credentials provided by twilio.

Steps to run the application: Run the below command in the terminal to run the app.

node app.js

Output:

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