Community Overview

Welcome to the Novu community! As the leading open-source notification infrastructure, Novu enables developers and product teams to manage notifications across multiple channels seamlessly. Whether you're building in-app notifications, email alerts, or SMS updates, Novu provides the tools to simplify integration and enhance your communication strategy.

Our mission is to create a platform where every developer can easily implement notifications, with a strong, growing community to support you in every step.

Community details

The Novu community is built on collaboration. Whether you're contributing code, helping with documentation, or supporting others in Discord, we welcome everyone. We have dedicated teams across various areas:

• Developers: Working on the core project and building new features.
• Contributors: Writing documentation, reporting bugs, and suggesting improvements.
• Maintainers: Ensuring the health of the project by reviewing and merging contributions.
• Ambassadors: The most involved contributors and community members nominated by the Community and approved by Novu.

You can find our official community communication channels on Discord. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just getting started, there's a place for you here.

Getting involved

There are many ways to get involved:

• Contribute code, raise issues, or request features on GitHub.
• Join discussions in the community on Discord.
• Attend Novu events and participate in hackathons to connect with other community members.

Learn how to get involved with your new favorite open source project

Release notes

Stay up to date with Novu releases and changes:

• Browse GitHub releases for version tags, release notes, and changelogs
• See the Novu changelog for a curated summary of new features and fixes

Novu Cloud, or Novu Project?

The Novu Project is our fully open source, community backed project. It is a complete notifications infrastructure platform that offers all the core components you need to implement notifications.

Novu Cloud is our commercial service offering. It is a superset of the Novu Project that includes additional features and capabilities businesses require to succeed with notifications at scale.

See the full list of differences between Novu Cloud and Novu.

Using Novu

There are two ways to get started with Novu.

1. Create a free account in our hosted Novu Cloud service

Who it's for: Most businesses, smaller organizations and teams, businesses that do not want to architect and host their own infrastructure, and businesses that do not want to worry about upgrades and system maintenance.

Who it's not for: Organizations that want to self-host their own instance of Novu, or plan on making customizations to their Novu installation.

Learn more about Novu Cloud's features, capabilities, and pricing.

2. Self-host

Self-hosting Novu is a great way to rapidly test new custom providers, or to test your contributions.

Use the Community Docker instances

• Who it's for: Individuals and organizations that want to experiment with more advanced notifications infrastructure architectures, businesses that have a strict requirement to run notifications on premises or inside their own network boundary.
• Who it's not for: Non-technical users or teams that are not familiar with implementation and management of container infrastructure. Organizations that require rapid scale-up out-of-the-box, and that don't have the skills and knowledge required to implement and adjust deployments.

Learn how to deploy Novu with Docker

Build it yourself

• Who it's for: Highly technical users that are deeply familiar with the required infrastructure components and technologies required to run it either locally or in your own cloud. Developers that want to experiment. Builders that are actively contributing to the Novu Project, and are testing new functionality.
• Who it's not for: Nearly everyone else. ;)

Learn how to run Novu on your local machine

Get help

<Note> For assistance with a Paid or Trial Novu Cloud account? Please use the in-app chat widget which is available in the lower right hand corner of the Novu Dashboard after you sign in. 🙂 </Note>

Should you encounter an issue with either your free Novu Cloud account, or your Novu Project instance, the community is here to help. Our primary channel for community support is our Discord community.

Learn how to get help with your Novu Project or Free-tier Novu Cloud account

Events

Staying in tune with our upcoming community events, workshops, and hackathons is easy. Keep an eye out for new announcements in the announcement channel in our Discord community. That's the best way to stay updated about new events. You can also subscribe to our youtube channel and follow us on dev.to.