In this article, we will configure how to use Firebase Client to Client Background Notifications with REST API in React Native so let’s start.

Notifications are a way to let you know that something new has happened so you don’t miss anything that might be worth your attention and appears whether you are using an application or not. so using notifications you can make your application more interactive with users and promote engagement for that application.

So for using the REST API notification follow the instruction below:

Step 1: You must have a good setup and working project whether you are testing on android or IOS.

Step 2: Install the following dependencies in your project using yarn or also you can use the npm package manager.

Step 3: After installing all the dependencies you have to make some changes to your App.js file as code given below:-

Step 4: After setting up App.js all the dependencies create a file Notification.js root directory and paste the following code given below

Step 5: You can send a push notification by using importing the sendPushNotification() function in your any file and create a condition on onPress and pass the payload with parameter as mention in code you can change them as well for ex.:

So Finally this is all done you can push notifications using REST API and display them by using libraries like notifee as I have used in my code.

You can find the files in the GitHub repo: https://github.com/ShivamNamdeo/React-Native-Firebase-REST-API-notification

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