Can I use silent web push notification using oneSignal? need to update some chunks of data without prompting the notification to user. I went through the documentation but couldn't find any useful data in it though. I am using Nest Js as BE and React Js as FE.
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Based on the documentation I see from the API, you can edit the external user id data tags.
Now, using a silent web push notification, it won't do what you want because silent web push is still being shown.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Notification/silent
There is a userVisibleOnly setting that can be set to false which means you don't have to display a notification. However with Chrome when you try to disable this Chrome does not allow it. https://tests.peter.sh/push-message-generator/
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Sorry for posting my answer late, I sent a message to the onesignal team on their website's Support chat option. This is the reply I get, latest of July 20th, 2021. May be in future, they may integrate this feature, but unfortunately not available now.
You cannot send notifications on web without displaying a notification to the user.
You can add additional Data to the notification and access that data in the notificationDisplay event.
Here is the docs on this: https://documentation.onesignal.com/docs/web-push-sdk#section-notification-display
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Ana From Onesignal (just for reference)
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