Manage notifications in React Native with react-native-notifications

Notifications are crucial for driving user engagement in applications, with various types such as remote, local, interactive, and silent notifications enhancing user interaction and information dissemination. The article discusses implementing these notification types using the open-source tool "react-native-notifications" developed by Wix, which integrates with React Native apps on both iOS and Android platforms. It provides a step-by-step guide on installing the library, linking it with iOS using cocoapods, and Android using Google Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM). The text explains how to handle notification events in different app states—foreground and background—and how to send and manage local notifications. The guide emphasizes the importance of getting user permissions, registering devices, and sending notifications through stored tokens. It highlights how react-native-notifications effectively bridges React Native and native notification APIs, with platform-specific features handled seamlessly, and concludes by mentioning how tools like LogRocket can enhance app performance by monitoring and identifying issues.