Temporary In-App User Notifications

[roryabraham]

cc @megankelso @michelle-thompson @tgolen

Problem

We don't currently have a way of displaying general-purpose temporary in-app notifications to users.

Potential Solutions

1. Implement a reusable growl, snackbar, or banner notification in RNC, similar to the ones used in web and mobile currently.
2. Use in-app messaging, and browser notifications on desktop/web. This is like push notifications in that they are typically persisted in the iOS/Android message centers, but typically show up as banner notifications in-app.
3. Any other ideas welcome.

[mallenexpensify]

@roryabraham Are you thinking more short term for the Proof of Concept or long term for public launch?

1. For short term/PoC, they shouldn't be needed, right?
2. For long term, would we be able to use snackbar notifications similar to how we do now?

My other thought is, I wonder how many of these types of messages we could send from Concierge. One potential benefit is we'd be encouraging people to interact with Concierge via Chat... maybe/hopefully

[AndrewGable]

Agreed with @mallenexpensify that this seems like a long term discussion, for the POC can we just use the default OS notification?

[roryabraham]

So after talking with @mallenexpensify some more, we really are thinking that 2. is probably the best option for a number of reasons. To name a few:

1. It most closely mirrors how we're using browser notifications on desktop/web.
2. It offers the look/feel and customization options of the native iOS/Android platforms.
3. It doesn't require that we design or maintain our own in-app notification system.

@AndrewGable yes, I think that Airship's in-app messaging will provide an interface to utilize the default OS.

closing this issue out for now, can be revisited later if desired

[marcaaron]

Missed this conversation, but I think we should start by doing nothing here for now.