Project · service-provider
Push Notifications Service Provider
- How you run it
- not recorded
- Holochain version
- 0.5
- Activity
- archived
- Checked
- 27 October 2026
What is Push Notifications Service Provider and what is it for?
Push Notifications Service Provider is a Holochain service provider: a small Holochain app whose job is to deliver push notifications to mobile phones through Firebase Cloud Messaging, the notification service run by Google. It was built so that apps made with Holochain could reach people on their phones with alerts rather than only while the app is open.
Push Notifications Service Provider is a service provider for Holochain apps: a small Holochain application that delivers push notifications to mobile phones through Firebase Cloud Messaging, the notification delivery service run by Google. Its repository describes it as FCM push notifications for Holochain mobile apps, and its README calls the project a Push Notifications Service Provider. It exists so that apps built with Holochain can reach people on their phones, rather than only while an app is open.
The project is packaged as a Holochain app rather than a library or a hosted website. Following the README produces a .webhapp bundle, the format the Holochain Launcher installs, together with its .happ subcomponent. A developer could bring up a small local network of two nodes with their interfaces, or bootstrap a larger one, to try the service before packaging it. It was published by darksoil studio, the team behind the p2p Shipyard toolset for putting Holochain apps onto desktop and mobile platforms.
The project is a historical artifact. Its repository was archived by its owner on 9 December 2025 and is now read-only, and no releases were ever published, so the build instructions above document how the service was made rather than a supported way to install it today. The place to read more is the repository README, which records the environment setup, local network bootstrapping and packaging commands.
How to get it
Desktop app
- The repository is archived and read-only, so the steps below describe how the project was built according to its README, not a supported installation today.
- Set up a Holochain development environment, then enter the Nix shell in the repository root and run npm install; the README says the rest of its instructions only work inside that shell.
- Run npm start to bring up a local network of two connected nodes with their interfaces, or npm run network 3 to bootstrap a different number of nodes.
- Run npm run package to produce push-notifications-service-provider.webhapp in workdir, alongside its push-notifications-service-provider.happ subcomponent; the README says the .webhapp is what to distribute so the Holochain Launcher can install it.
Source: https://github.com/darksoil-studio/holochain-push-notifications-service
Questions people ask
- Is this project still maintained?
- No. Its repository was archived by the owner on 9 December 2025 and is now read-only, and there are no published releases, so it should be read as a historical project rather than maintained software. source
- How did the project expect to be run during development?
- The README required setting up a Holochain development environment and entering its Nix shell first, warning that no other instruction works outside it; npm start then created a local network of two connected nodes with their interfaces and the Holochain Playground. source
From 5 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.
Try Push Notifications Service Provider
- Code on GitHubOpen on GitHub ↗Last change 6 September 2025.
- ReleaseNo GitHub release recorded.
- The project's own files do not say how it is run.
Details & sources
Evidence
- Last change
- api.github.com/repos/darksoil-studio/holochain-push-notifications-servicelisted by a third party · seen since 20 October 2026 · github.repository@1
- Activity
- api.github.com/repos/darksoil-studio/holochain-push-notifications-servicelisted by a third party · seen since 20 October 2026 · liveness@1
Compatibility
- hdk
- 0.5 · Cargo.toml @ ee45335
- hdi
- 0.6 · Cargo.toml @ ee45335
- holochain-client
- —
- happ.yaml
- present · workdir/happ.yaml @ ee45335
- web-happ.yaml
- absent