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You can do mobile push notifications to a phone even if they aren't connected to a mobile carrier.

That said, I'd argue SSE is the browser equivalent of mobile push notifications.



SSE generally requires the page to be active in the foreground, which is not a viable solution for mobile.

Web Push is a distinct API for browsers to emulate native push notifications via service workers. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API


I thought it was more that the Document object had to stay alive. ...although, these days a lot of mobile browsers will kill that thing off if the page is not in the background, so yeah...




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