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I want to send push notifications to my web application users on the occurrence of certain events by updating an icon with a red dot. This is similar to Facebook updating the "notification bell" icon with a dot, on receiving a message or getting a new friend request

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I have tried to send notifications to the web app, but it requires the user to "allow notifications" before sending it.

Note that, Facebook/Twitter or any other social media sites can notify users even if the user explicitly blocks all the notifications for the website.

Akshay Joish
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Socket.io is quite handy for this. You can just listen/emit some events at both client and server and act accordingly (in your case, updating the "notification bell" icon)

Ömer Furkan Gençer
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