🔥v6 Notifications and Messaging Tracker Issue

[technoplato]

[Updated 2019/12/09] by @mikehardy & @Salakar - so don't blame @technoplato for these words 😉

This issue is just to track the status of v6 notifications and messaging module.

Currently notifications is not available in react-native-firebase v6, and will not be. Why? #2566 (comment)

You may not mix react-native-firebase v5 and v6, so if you want react-native-firebase notifications, you will not be able to use react-native-firebase v6.

This has the most current status: #2566 (comment)

Options are:

• react-native-firebase v5
• react-native-firebase v6 + react-native-push-notifications (or other 3rd party) for free
• react-native-firebase v6 + recently announced Invertase licensed product "Notifee" which is approaching delivery but not ready yet

If you have any questions please read this thread. If your question hasn't already been answered please feel to raise it as an issue on the new Notifee repo.

Patience is always appreciated, and in the meantime react-native-firebase v5 continues to work and be updated.

[technoplato]

From this Tweet, looks like there's some good progress happening: https://twitter.com/elliothesp/status/1166651845873479681

Would still love to know where I could contribute to this great project!

[mikehardy]

I think this is the correct place, however with the tight deadline for the firebase conference happening, and the large-scale work from v5 to v6 I think it's mostly @Salakar and @Ehesp doing the v6 ports as a tight crew. As soon as that lands on the v6 packages though, there will be an immediate need for testing which would be a great way to help

[technoplato]

10 4 @mikehardy Thanks for letting me know. Will be paying close attention in the mean time.

During the period with no rnf v6 support for notifications, is there a way you would recommend getting Firebase notifications to work?

[mikehardy]

v5 🤷‍♂️ - it's what I'm doing (and I'm supporting / patching / releasing v5.x so we can use up to date react-native and firebase sdks, so it's not dead-end at least)

[technoplato]

Really stupid question here, apologies in advance: I can't use v5 and v6 simultaneously, can I?

[technoplato]

I was having issues with project portability, so took the time to nuke everything <v5 and came over to v6 land. Been quite happily living here, so don't want to trod back if I don't have to.

[mikehardy]

v5 and v6 do not work together in any way, sorry

[technoplato]

Hey @mikehardy, just recently came across this Project board: https://github.com/invertase/react-native-firebase/projects/5

Is that something you guys keep up to date?

[mikehardy]

I believe it's up to date but I don't work directly with the invertase crew on moving features forward - they use the board to coordinate that I believe. I'm more just combing the issues list for triage and keeping v5 running so they have more space to work through that board :-)

[technoplato]

Brilliant, thanks for clarifying!

[waqas19921]

@technoplato here #2529 is the notifications pull request i guess its merged somewhere

[technoplato]

@waqas19921 good find. It wasn’t merged though it was closed.

@Salakar can you say why this was closed? Will it be merged soon?

[Ehesp]

@technoplato We had to prioritise the Firebase modules as we're releasing v6 soon. A notifications migration for v5 -> v6 will be completed in the next couple of weeks.

[technoplato]

Thanks for letting us know @Ehesp

If there's anything we can do to help, please let us know.