README.md

🎬 Recomend — Notify

Notify is the notification API for the Recomend app, dev by @lxup. It handles in-app and push notifications using Novu and Firebase Cloud Messaging. Supabase triggers this API to send notifications based on user activity.

✅ TODO

Nothing yet.

🚀 Tech Stack

• ⚡️ Express - Web framework for Node.js
• 🔔 Novu – In-app Notifications
• 📲 Firebase Cloud Messaging – Push Notifications

✉️ Supported notification types (routes):

• follower — when someone follows a user
• friend — for friend requests or acceptances
• reco — new recommendations between users
• subscriber — subscriber-related events

📦 Installation

npm install
cp .env.template .env.local
# Add your environment variables to .env.local
npm run dev

Novu

Run Novu locally

npx novu@latest dev --port 9000

Push Workflows to Novu

npx novu@latest sync \
  --bridge-url {{YOUR_BRIDGE_URL}} \
  --secret-key {{SECRET_KEY}} # DEV or PROD