Meteor Notifications

Easy notification functionality in meteor.

meteor add notifications

See a demo

Usage

1. Install the package

2. Put notificationsDropdown template in your navigation bar

{{> notificationsDropdown}}

3. Create new notification

Notifications.new { title: 'New message', link: '/messages/1' }

Helpers

Notification list

{{Notifications limit=0 unreadFirst=false}}

Lists all user notifications with specified limit (0 means no limit). If unreadFirst is true then unread notifications are listed first. Results are sorted by date in descending order (i.e. newest first).

Above parameters are optional and defaulted to 0 and false respectively.

Notification count

{{notificationCount}}

This will return unread user notifications.

Templates

Notifications dropdown

{{> notificationsDropdown icon='bell' iconEmpty='bell-o'}}

This template can be used with bootstrap dropdown like this:

<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
  <div class="collapse navbar-collapse">
    <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right">
      {{> notificationsDropdown icon='envelope' iconEmpty='envelope-o'}}
    </ul>
  </div>
</nav>

icon and iconEmpty parameters are font-awesome icon class names without prefix (fa- is prepend automaticaly). If user has 0 unread notifications iconEmpty is used otherwise icon.

Above parameters are optional and defaulted to 'bell' and 'bell-o' respectively.

Notification listing

{{> notifications}}

This is simple bootstrap panel with listing of all user notifications.

Notifications object

Creating new notification

Notifications.new
  title: 'New message'
  link: '/messages/1'
  icon: 'bolt'
  class: 'default'

This method inserts new notification into Notifications collection.

title and link are used to create link to notification.

icon is font-awesome icon class name displayed with in notification link.

class is bootstrap 3 bg- class and can be one of primary success info danger (note: you don't need to specify prefix).

read is notification state. Defaulted to false.

owner is user id. Defaulted to Meteor.userId().

date is current date.

Reading notifications

You can set all notifications as read with:

Notifications.readAll()

or set only one by id:

Notifications.read _id

Customising

You can created your own buttons and replace the default templates. To do this, you should use the separate template-extension package.

1. Install with meteor add aldeed:template-extension

2. Create new button templates based on this markup

<template name="myNotificationsDropdown">
  <div class="btn-group">
    <button class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">
      <i class="fa fa-bell"></i>
    </button>
    <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu">
      {{#each Notifications limit=5 readFirst=true}}
        <li><a href="{{link}}" class="bg-{{class}}"><i class="fa fa-{{icon}}">{{title}}</a></li>
      {{/each}}
    </ul>
  </div>
</template>

<template name="myNotifications">
  <ul class="notification-list">
    {{#each Notifications}}
      <li>
        <a href="{{link}}" class="bg-{{class}}"><i class="fa-{{icon}}"></i> {{title}}</a>
      </li>
    {{/each}}
  </ul>
</template>

3. Replace the existing button templates with the replace method provided by the package

Template.myNotificationsDropdown.replaces("notificationsDropdown")

Template.myNotifications.replaces("notifications")