Novu

The open-source notification infrastructure for developers

4.7•15 reviews•

2.6K followers

The open-source notification infrastructure for developers

4.7•15 reviews•

2.6K followers

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Novu simplifies all your communication channels into a simple workflow of Emails, SMSs, Push notifications, and In-app notifications. Create a drag-and-drop workflow with all your channels that include filters, delays, and digest notifications.

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Launched on October 19th, 2023

4.7

Based on 15 reviews

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Reviewers see Novu as a capable, developer-friendly notification toolkit that makes multi-channel messaging easier to integrate and manage. They repeatedly praise its clear documentation, workflow visualization, broad service integrations, and the transparency that comes with its open-source model. Several comments suggest it fits complex product setups and self-hosted deployments, especially where data control matters. Criticism is thin, but one reviewer explicitly wants a hosted option that still keeps data in a customer-controlled cloud database, and another is still evaluating environment and staging workflows.

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easy integration (5)

open source (3)

workflow customization (3)

community support (2)

react integration (2)

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dailydomains.io

•3 reviews

I have been using Novu for dailydomains.io and it's been amazing. The drop-in component to display in-app notifications is very nice and the overall UI is intuitive. If you have ever built a message digest feature, you know how complicated it is. Novu abstracts that all away. I am eagerly awaiting feature updates to Topics so that I can simplify my app even more. Also love that the team is super transparent and does regular office hours on Discord. Definitely a project to follow.

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community support (2)workflow customization (3)in-app notifications (1)

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•1 review

Congrats Novy team ! I'm studying the use of Novu for our stack, and I was wondering what was the current best practice in term of development flow. Context: our platform is a B2B SaaS product and notifications (in app, email, etc) are very deeply linked to the product and to all its features. Each developer has their local environment where they should be able to develop new features and their corresponding new notifications, or upgrade old feature and making sure it doesn't break existing notifications. We then have a review app mechanism that automatically deploys an instance of our platform for each development branch, so that our product/UX team can test everything: notifications should work there as well. And finally we have a final staging instance + our production instance where of course notifications should work. Each of those instances are isolated one from another. Question: How can we work with Novu in that context? Can we easily have a Novu for each of our instances, that would duplicate the production setup? Can we use a single Novu instance with various environments, cloning the conf of the prod (workflows, etc), but not the actual data (users, companies, etc)? What is the best practice to use Novu with this flow? Thx !

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•1 review

Novu is great notification infrastructure, easy to integrate in your application. Novu is open-source so you can see how your data is stored and what happens under the hood - it's very transparent. For me, it's more than just a product because Novu (as open-source project) has gathered a great community around it. Everyone can contribute.

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easy integration (5)community support (2)open source (3)

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dailydomains.io

•3 reviews

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community support (2)workflow customization (3)in-app notifications (1)

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easy integration (5)community support (2)open source (3)

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