All good things come to an end: that’s what I thought when Parse announced it’s shutdown. Back then, Parse was the best “push notifications as a service”-solution that offered a REST-API to send and schedule cross platform push notifications through a backend service. Because we used it in one of our products, we had to look for a replacement and so I finally stumbled upon OneSignal.
Like Parse, it offers cross platform pushes, a ton of clientside SDKs to easily integrate it in various languages and a solid REST-API to trigger push notifications through a backend. And last but not least, it doesn’t cost any money*.
As you might have noticed in my recent posts I use Vertx a lot. So I thought it would be a good idea to write a library that allows you to send push notifications using OneSignal the Vertx-way. You can see this library as a wrapper around OneSignal’s REST-API that gives you compile-time validation instead of a trial and error approach.
Happy pushing!
* According to the documentation of OneSignal, OneSignal makes money from collecting data of your clients. If you’re concerned, they also offer paid service options.
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