Chrome Push Notification: This site has been updated in the background

Question

While implementing the chrome push notification, we were fetching the latest change from our server. While doing so, the service-worker is showing an extra notification with the message

This site has been updated in the background

Already tried with the suggestion posted here https://disqus.com/home/discussion/html5rocks/push_notifications_on_the_open_web/
But could not find anything useful till now. Is there any suggestion ?

Answer 1

Generally as soon as you receive a push message from GCM (Google Cloud Messaging) you have to show a push notification in the browser. This is mentioned on the 3rd point in here:

https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notificatons-on-the-open-web#what-are-the-limitations-of-push-messaging-in-chrome-42

So it might happen that somehow you are skipping the push notification though you got a push message from GCM and you are getting a push notification with some default message like "This site has been updated in the background".

Answer 2

I was expriencing the same issue but after a long research I got to know that this is because delay happen between PUSH event and self.registration.showNotification(). I only missed return keyword before self.registration.showNotification()

So you need to implement following code structure to get notification:

var APILINK = "https://xxxx.com";
 self.addEventListener('push', function(event) {
      event.waitUntil(
          fetch(APILINK).then(function(response) {

        return response.json().then(function(data) {
                  console.log(data);
                  var title = data.title;
                  var body = data.message;
                  var icon = data.image;
                  var tag = 'temp-tag';
                  var urlOpen = data.URL;

                return  self.registration.showNotification(title, {
                      body: body,
                      icon: icon,
                      tag: tag
                  })
              });
          })
      );
  });

Answer 3

I've run into this issue in the past. In my experience the cause is generally one of three issues:

1. You're not showing a notification in response to the push message. Every time you receive a push message on the device, when you finish handling the event a notification must be left visible on the device. This is due to subscribing with the userVisibleOnly: true option (although note this is not optional, and not setting it will cause the subscription to fail.
2. You're not calling event.waitUntil() in response to handling the event. A promise should be passed into this function to indicate to the browser that it should wait for the promise to resolve before checking whether a notification is left showing.
3. For some reason you're resolving the promise passed to event.waitUntil before a notification has been shown. Note that self.registration.showNotification is a promise and async so you should be sure it has resolved before the promise passed to event.waitUntil resolves.

Answer 4

This works, just copy/paste/modify. Replace the "return self.registration.showNotification()" with the below code. The first part is to handle the notification, the second part is to handle the notification's click. But don't thank me, unless you're thanking my hours of googling for answers.

Seriously though, all thanks go to Matt Gaunt over at developers.google.com

self.addEventListener('push', function(event) {
  console.log('Received a push message', event);

  var title = 'Yay a message.';
  var body = 'We have received a push message.';
  var icon = 'YOUR_ICON';
  var tag = 'simple-push-demo-notification-tag';
  var data = {
    doge: {
        wow: 'such amaze notification data'
    }
  };

  event.waitUntil(
    self.registration.showNotification(title, {
      body: body,
      icon: icon,
      tag: tag,
      data: data
    })
  );
});

---

self.addEventListener('notificationclick', function(event) {
  var doge = event.notification.data.doge;
  console.log(doge.wow);
});

Answer 5

If you need more things to happen at the time of receiving the push notification event, the showNotification() is returning a Promise. So you can use the classic chaining.

const itsGonnaBeLegendary = new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    self.registration.showNotification(title, options)
        .then(() => {
            console.log("other stuff to do");

            resolve();
        });
});

event.waitUntil(itsGonnaBeLegendary);