PushServer

Nice to see more open source push notification tools, and the quality is generally getting better. The main drawbacks to PushServer seems to be that it's not cross platform, and it doesn't interact with Apple's feedback service. Apple has an ominous warning for people who decide to do this: "APNs monitors providers for their diligence in checking the feedback service and refraining from sending push notifications to nonexistent applications on devices." [1] Though it's unclear what the penalty really is, and this is listed as a TODO item by PushServer [2] My company decided to build a push notification system in house. We needed it to be cross platform, able to handle very large volumes, and fully follow all of Apple and Google's guidelines. We recently released it as a service for other game developers: https://gamethrive.com Having buil

I built something similar for a client once. Starting up the server without ensuring a connection to mongo seems dangerous, no? https://github.com/jazzychad/PushServer/blob/master/app.js#L... Basically, you want to listen for the 'open' event and then start the express server... db.once('open', function() { start express here }) A very important future feature would be to handle apns feedback service too (I see that in your TODO). I hear that if you don't enable this, apple will throttle your messages.