Install Django Notifications App
We will use this app https://github.com/django-notifications/django-notifications – Connect to preview
They have good documentation about how to install and use this app, just read README file.
1.Run command in our terminal:
pip install django-notifications-hq
2.Add to main settings.py:
INSTALLED_APPS = [
....
'django.contrib.auth',
'notifications',
....
]
Important that ‘notifications’ must be after ‘django.contrib.auth’. Also add this string:
DJANGO_NOTIFICATIONS_CONFIG = { 'USE_JSONFIELD': True}
3.To our main urls.py add this code:
from django.conf.urls import url
import notifications.urls
urlpatterns = [
...
url('^inbox/notifications/', include(notifications.urls, namespace='notifications')),
...
] + static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root = settings.MEDIA_ROOT)
4.Run migtation command in our terminal:
python manage.py migrate notifications
Now u can use Notifications App.
Customizations for our project
Note: If you want to test with these CSS classes, you can get the open-source CSS file at agilecss.com
1.Add to _header.html file following code inside nav menu
2.Add to the end of _footer.html file this code
3.Add js files in base.html file after _footer.html including
4.Save the following file to our projects js folder and run “python manage.py collectstatic“ command in our terminal
Fire a notification
You can add a notification in view.py in any method
#Make notification to admin
recipient = User.objects.get(id=1)
notify.send(recipient, recipient=recipient, verb='New Contact us request')
This example from contact us page