Schedule sending FCM messages for push notifications

[KrisLau]

Hi, I was wondering if bree is suited to schedule sending FCM messages for push notifications? For example, if a user creates an event, I want the user to be notified 15 minutes before, an hour before, and a day before. However if the event is updated, the job would also need to be updated and the same goes for if the event/event occurrence is deleted. The event and event occurrences are stored in my remote database.

I was mainly worried because I read through this thread and was unsure if it meant that I could dynamically add & update the event and the job to send scheduled push notifications and if that is recommended.

• Rare one off jobs & dynamic scheduled jobs #17

[titanism]

Bree can be used for FCM, push, emails, anything. You need to write your own logic to handle the queue (e.g. user creates an event -> have your job run every 15 seconds to check for non-locked events that need to go out that are <= Date.now() -> mark them as locked -> attempt to send via FCM -> if failure then unlock).

[KrisLau]

@titanism So if I were to add tasks dynamically would I just call .add()? But in the documentation it states that it needs to be run using .run() but the run method runs the job immediately? Also how do I delete specific job or is the .stop enough?

[titanism]

No. That is not the best way to do it. You need to make a job run every 15 seconds that polls a database for push notifications (aka your events) that need to go out. As stated, you would need to write your own logic.