Inbox by Novu - The open-source notification <Inbox /> for modern products.
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We are launching our redesigned component for React. Drop in 6 lines of code and get a stunning notification system with real-time updates and built-in user preferences. Ship faster, delight users, and stop reinventing the notification wheel.
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Is it react only or is there a Vue version?
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@school_4_antsÂ
Currently <Inbox /> is supported with react and its frameworks like nextjs, remix etc. We offer headless library which can be used to build Vue component.
Checkout the documentation: https://docs.novu.co/platform/sdks/javascript
Curious to learn how you are looking to use Novu in your product? Would you like to share few usecases?
Building a notification system from scratch has always been a frustrating process—real-time updates, user preferences, grouping notifications properly—it’s never as simple as it should be. That’s why Novu Inbox looks so exciting.
The idea of a drop-in React component that’s fully customizable and handles all the backend complexity is a game-changer. No more reinventing the wheel just to get a functional notification center. The built-in digest feature, especially, seems like a smart way to prevent notification overload—finally, a way to avoid spamming users with every single event.
Haven’t tried it yet, but definitely excited to see how well it works!
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@piyushnaik thanks for sharing that! And you are spot on. The idea is to streamline this very, very complicated issue, saving a lot of engineering time and giving engineers a standard to work with to provide an easy-to-use, batteries-included system that works for them instead of the other way around.
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Could you share more about how Inbox by Novu handles user preferences in real-time?
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@samaraliÂ
Hey Samar, user preference is one of the powerful feature. User can change the notification preference for in-app or other channels directly from <Inbox /> component preference view
Checkout the documentation
https://docs.novu.co/platform/inbox/react/components/preferences
HI, 👋 I am not a React developer, but this open-source notification component looks promising. Worth checking out—it might inspire some ideas for my future implementations!
amazing! Can't wait to try it out in my next project.
Self-hosting is where Novu pulls away from Knock and Courier. Both are solid managed options, but the moment you need to keep notification data on your own infra for compliance or latency reasons, your choices shrink fast. The drop-in Inbox component is a nice touch too... most teams end up building a janky in-app notification center from scratch because existing SDKs never match the rest of the UI.