FCM legacy APIs will be discontinued 😳

[Uladzimir Yankovich]

From letter: We’re writing to let you know that starting June 20, 2024 the legacy Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) APIs will be discontinued.

It turns out we will lose FCM?

At the same time, we are not yet able to work with web sockets. And using FCM (non-legacy) still requires Notification permission even to just get a push on the service worker.

Colleagues, I think it's time to do something 😅

[Cuyler Stuwe]

This is crazy.

[Uladzimir Yankovich]

It's strange that it's been a week since the Firebase mailing and no one has initiated this discussion 🤔

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Uladzimir Yankovich,

Founder @ Manganum (manganum.app).

[Cuyler Stuwe]

They're not getting rid of FCM entirely; They're deprecating and phasing out one particular set of FCM APIs.

See: https://firebase.google.com/support/faq#fcm-23-deprecation

It's just not immediately clear to me at a glance how/whether this impacts the built-in chrome.gcm and chrome.instanceID APIs.

[Cuyler Stuwe]

And as per usual, extensions are the "redheaded stepchild", with none of the migration advice addressing them distinctly from "web":

[Uladzimir Yankovich]

https://gang.manganum.app/hTtpv37S — it was in the letter.

This is the project of our extension. It turns out it touches. We don't have notification permission 😭

[Oliver Dunk]

Hey everyone,

Thanks for calling this out. We're taking a look at this to figure out the impact and will try to share an update soon. I definitely appreciate the concern but don't want to say too much before we've finished looking into it.

Will try to follow-up within the next day or so.

Thanks,

Oliver Dunk | DevRel, Chrome Extensions | https://developer.chrome.com/ | London, GB

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[Oliver Dunk]

Hey all,

Thanks for the patience here.

While the underlying implementation of the chrome.gcm API may be affected by this, we’re still planning to keep that API available for the foreseeable future, and the work to make sure that it continues running past the deprecation looks like it will fall under work already being done for Chrome as a whole.

We’re not currently anticipating any work for developers but if that changes we’ll definitely update this thread.

Thanks,

Oliver Dunk | DevRel, Chrome Extensions | https://developer.chrome.com/ | London, GB

[Cuyler Stuwe]

Awesome, good to know this is on the CRX team radar with intent to resolve.