Web Push Notifications not appearing when tab closed

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My chrome push notifications work when the browser tab is open but not when it is closed. From what I understand the notification should appear even when the tab is closed.

I have verified that the notifications are allowed for the site

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How can I debug why push notifications are not working when the tab is closed?

Btw I am on a mac.

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1 Answers

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You are confusing two different technologies:

  • using the Notification API alone, as you do, will show the notification only when the page is open
  • in order to show notifications when a website is closed you need to use Service Workers + Push API + Notification API as I described in this answer