pewallin/firebase-ua-pusher

Firebase / Urban Airship push messages queue

Firebase / Urban Airship queue

Use a Firebase queue for delivering iOS push messages through Urban Airship.

• Task queue: Firebase WorkQueue.js

Installation

Local dev environment

Add to .bash_profile or similar

export FIREBASE_URL="firebase-url"
export FIREBASE_SECRET="firebase-secret"
export UA_KEY="urban-airship-key"
export UA_SECRET="urban-airship-secret"
export UA_MASTERSECRET="urban-airship-mastersecret"

Install dependencies

npm install

Deploy to Heroku

Install Heroku toolbelt and:

heroku create XXX
heroku config add FIREBASE_URL="firebase-url"
heroku config add FIREBASE_SECRET="firebase-secret"
heroku config add UA_KEY="urban-airship-key"
heroku config add UA_SECRET="urban-airship-secret"
heroku config add UA_MASTERSECRET="urban-airship-mastersecret"
git push heroku master

Usage

Default callback

Expects the Firebase push messages to be added as

baseRef ("/messages/push")
    |
    `- Sender id
        |
        `- Message id
            |
            `- Message

Message should have the following Urban Airship fields:

Mandatory

alias or device_token
alert

Optional

Badge
Sound

BYO callback

Override the function that gets called when a new message has been received from Firebase by setting options.firebaseCallback(snapshot). The overriding function needs to call sendPushToUser(message) and remove the Firebase reference snapshot.ref().remove().