OS Notification of text messages

[prettydiff]

This functionality is achieved in Windows 10. When a text message comes into the browser while the browser is not the active window it blinks orange in the taskbar. Unfortunately, I only know how to achieve this effect in Windows.

See: https://github.com/prettydiff/share-file-systems/blob/master/lib/terminal/server/osNotification.ts

I am looking for guidance to achieve a similar effect on other operating systems.

[terrablue]

Have you considered the Web Notifications API (https://caniuse.com/notifications)? If you're willing to forgo Safari iOS support, it might be a possibility.

I have also seen something like a notification count API that actually shows a small number next to the browser icon, but I can't find it at the moment.

[terrablue]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Badging_API

There we go. Though this hasn't seen much adoption beyond Chrome-like Windows/macOS.