Question

I am using NodeJS to send notifications to my clients using NowJS but the data that I need to send in the notifications has to come from my database.

Since I am using Django backend, I can make HTTP requests to my Node.js server and send the required data. But I need to be able to accept this data using Node.js. How can I do this?

Answer 1

I’m a fan of using Connect/Express, so here’s a trivial example you could use:

var express = require('express');
var app = express.createServer();
var nowjs = require("now");
var everyone = nowjs.initialize(app);
app.use(express.bodyParser()); //If you want nice JSON parsing

app.post('/sendNotification', function(req, res){
  console.log(req.params) //Look at the POST params
  console.log(req.body) //Look at the POST body

  everyone.now.receiveMessage(req.body.dataYouCareAbout); 

  res.send('Notification Sent!');
});

You could then use that “sendNotification” endpoint to accept POST data and send it (or some piece of it, or anything really) down to NowJS.