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    The open-source notification infrastructure. In-app Inbox component, E-mail, SMS, Push and Slack Integrations.

    infrastructure
    backend
    frontend
    agents
    communication
    email
    inbox
    javascript
    TypeScript
    NOASSERTION
    38.9K stars
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    Updated 5/4/2026
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    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Novu is an open-source notification infrastructure supporting multi-channel delivery including Email, SMS, Push, Slack, and In-App notifications.
    • Key features include an embeddable real-time Inbox component, unified API for multiple providers, notification workflow engine, and no-code email block editor.
    • Strengths are its extensive provider integrations, real-time capabilities, and community-driven development; limitation includes some enterprise features under commercial license.
    • Organizations can use Novu to centralize and customize notification workflows, improving user engagement with scalable, multi-channel messaging in production environments.
    • Ideal use cases include SaaS platforms, e-commerce, and apps needing unified notification management across channels with real-time user preference controls.

    About novu


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    The <Inbox /> infrastructure for modern products

    The notification platform that turns complex multi-channel delivery into a single component. Built for developers, designed for growth, powered by open source.


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    ⭐️ Why Novu?

    Novu provides a unified API that makes it simple to send notifications through multiple channels, including Inbox/In-App, Push, Email, SMS, and Chat. With Novu, you can create custom workflows and define conditions for each channel, ensuring that your notifications are delivered in the most effective way possible.

    ✨ Features

    • Embeddable Inbox component with real-time support
    • Single API for all messaging providers (Inbox/In-App, Email, SMS, Push, Chat)
    • Digest Engine to combine multiple notification in to a single E-mail
    • No-Code Block Editor for Email
    • Notification Workflow Engine
    • Embeddable user preferences component gives your subscribers control over their notifications
    • Community-driven

    🚀 Getting Started

    Create a free account and follow the instructions on the dashboard.

    📚 Table of contents

    Embeddable Inbox component

    Using the Novu API and admin panel, you can easily add a real-time notification center to your web app without building it yourself. You can use our React, or build your own via our API and SDK. React native, Vue, and Angular are coming soon.

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    Read more about how to add a notification center Inbox to your app.

    Providers

    Novu provides a single API to manage providers across multiple channels with a simple-to-use API and UI interface.

    💌 Email

    📞 SMS

    📱 Push

    👇 Chat

    📱 In-App

    📋 Read Our Code Of Conduct

    Before you begin coding and collaborating, please read our Code of Conduct thoroughly to understand the standards (that you are required to adhere to) for community engagement. As part of our open-source community, we hold ourselves and other contributors to a high standard of communication. As a participant and contributor to this project, you agree to abide by our Code of Conduct.

    💻 Need Help?

    We are more than happy to help you. If you are getting any errors or facing problems while working on this project, join our Discord server and ask for help. We are open to discussing anything related to the project.

    🛡️ License

    Novu is a commercial open source company, which means some parts of this open source repository require a commercial license. The concept is called "Open Core," where the core technology is fully open source, licensed under MIT license, and the enterprise code is covered under a commercial license ("/enterprise" Enterprise Edition). Enterprise features are built by the core engineering team of Novu which is hired in full-time.

    The following modules and folders are licensed under the enterprise license:

    • enterprise folder at the root of the project and all of their subfolders and modules
    • apps/web/src/ee folder and all of their subfolders and modules
    • apps/dashboard/src/ee folder and all of their subfolders and modules

    💪 Thanks to all of our contributors

    Thanks a lot for spending your time helping Novu grow. Keep rocking 🥂

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