Electron with node-notifier display windows 10 notification

Question

I\'m trying to make a simple app that should display notification when button is clicked. The problem is that the notification does not show, but console.logs are showing. S

Answer 1

I've got it working now, thanks to all the people here :) https://github.com/mikaelbr/node-notifier/issues/144#issuecomment-319324058

Based on anthonyraymond's comment, you need to have your app INSTALLED in your windows machine with an appId. You can configure appId in your package.json like this.

{
  "name": "myapp",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "test",
  "main": "main.js",
  "build": {
    "appId": "com.myapp.id"
  }
}

The appId does not need to have that java/android format, my app just have an appId of elite-notifier.

Then you can pass the appId when calling the notify function of notifier.

notifier.notify(
    {
      appName: "com.myapp.id", <-- yes, the key here is appName :)
      title: "Hello",
      message: "Hello world!",
      wait: true
    },
    function(err, response) {
      // Response is response from notification
      console.log("responded...");
    }
  );

After installation, This will work even on development mode (by running electron . command) provided that you'll not change the appId of your app after installation since there will be a mismatch on the installed one and the development version of the app.