Phase 14 · Real-time Communication
ProjectsLive Notification System
Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.
Summary
A service that pushes real-time notifications to connected clients when events happen elsewhere in your system — practice for pub/sub and connecting real-time infra to your broader backend.
How to Learn This
- 1Trigger a notification via pub/sub when an event occurs, e.g. a new comment.
- 2Handle users who are offline — queue or store notifications for when they reconnect.
- 3Support multiple notification types with different payloads on one connection.
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