Building notification systems from scratch is time-consuming, complex, and repetitive. Every modern application needs emails, SMS, push notifications, in-app inboxes, and real-time updates — but maintaining all of this independently is a nightmare.
Novu is a powerful open-source notification infrastructure that unifies email, SMS, push, chat, and in-app notifications under a single API — complete with workflow automation, real-time delivery, and embeddable UI components.
📌 Key Features:
✅ Unified Notification API – Send email, SMS, push, chat & in-app messages via one API 🔔
✅ Embeddable Notification Center – Drop-in real-time inbox UI with read/unread status 📥
✅ Workflow & Routing Engine – Channel priority, fallbacks & conditional logic 🔄
✅ Digest & Scheduling System – Batch notifications to reduce noise ⏰
✅ User Preferences Management – Full control over channels & frequency ⚙️
✅ Real-Time Updates – WebSocket-powered instant delivery ⚡
✅ Open-Source & Self-Hostable – MIT-licensed, deploy anywhere 🚀
🛠 Tech Stack & Architecture:
Backend:
💻 Node.js + TypeScript – Core backend
🧩 Express / NestJS – API framework
📦 MongoDB – Notification storage
⚡ Redis + BullMQ – Queues & background jobs
🔌 WebSocket / Socket.io – Real-time delivery
📨 Handlebars – Email templating
Frontend:
🎨 React – Dashboard & inbox UI
💠 Tailwind CSS / CSS Modules – Styling
📘 Storybook – UI component development
DevOps & Infrastructure:
🐳 Docker & Docker Compose
🔁 CI/CD Pipelines
🌐 REST + WebSocket Architecture
🌐 Supported Provider Integrations:
Email: SendGrid, Mailgun, AWS SES, Postmark, SMTP
SMS: Twilio, Vonage, Plivo, SNS
Push: Firebase Cloud Messaging, Expo, APNS, Pushpad
Chat: Slack, Discord, Microsoft Teams
🌟 Why Use Novu?
🔹 Eliminate duplicate notification logic
🔹 Standardize workflows across channels
🔹 Save massive development time
🔹 Scale notifications reliably
🔹 Use ready-made UI components
🔗 GitHub Repo & Documentation:
https://reactjsguru.com/repos/mastering-modern-notification-systems-with-novu?utm_source=devto&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=repo_post
👨💻 Maintained by: NovuHQ
Novu is a production-ready, developer-friendly solution for building scalable notification systems — whether you’re shipping a startup MVP or an enterprise platform.
💬 Would you build your own notification system or rely on an open-source infrastructure like Novu? Let’s discuss 👇🔥
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