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Can I use a push service other than Google's GCM when using the new Push API with service workers?

sideshowbarker
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  • No, each browser uses its manufacturer's web service. If you don't want to interact directly with GCM you can use services like [this](https://pushpad.xyz) (that will interact with GCM on your behalf). – collimarco Mar 25 '16 at 16:55

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Today, Chrome is the only browser that supports the standard push API so right now the short answer is No.

A longer answer involves doing different things for different browsers

  • Safari offers desktop notifications via APNS and a proprietary API
  • Firefox is shipping support for push notifications soon and presumably will use a different push server than GCM.

So to summarize, it seems that different combinations of Browser/OS will require different push servers. In the future there is an IETF draft (https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/webpush/documents/) that should mitigate this. There are also companies working on abstracting these problems for a fee. Just search for web push notifications to get a few of them.

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    Firefox nightly now has support for push and it supports the web push protocol. Hopefully Chrome will move over to supporting the web push protocol at a later date. – Matt Gaunt Jan 05 '16 at 11:35