Can I Send And Receive Push Notifications On My Website With Urban Airship?

Question

This is the scenario for my website:

1.) I am a Student who is waiting for a Question
2.) A Professor sends a Question to his Students for them to answer
3.) The Student 's website page will change to the QuestionPage where the Student can answer the Question

Basically I'm wondering if I can use Urban Airship to push and pull these push notifications on my website. Urban Airship does have Javascript documentation, but it looks like it's only compatible for PhoneGap/Cordova (there seems to be some config files and such that I don't have on my website). Furthermore, there are some npm node modules for Urban Airship to work on my website, but it looks like they only allow pushing the notification rather than receiving them. ie you can push notifications OUT to other devices, but you can't push the notifications to another user using the website.

My knowledge here is limited since I've never done any real-time web stuff, so thanks in advance for your answers!

Answer 1

Urban Airship is not a browser push provider; it supports push to mobile (eg iOS, Android) devices only. However, Urban Airship supports integrations with a browser push provider, Roost , which may help you accomplish your goal if you need to send notifications to both mobile native applications (which includes natively deployable webapps such as those build with Cordova/Phonegap) as well as browsers.