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title: "Push and Notifications"
description: "Push messaging allows developers to engage users by providing timely and customized content outside the context of the web page. *Push* and *Notification* are different, but complementary, functions: a *push* is the action of the server supplying message information to a service worker; a *notification* is the action of the service worker sending the information to a user."
published_on: 2015-10-01
updated_on: 2015-10-01
order: 1
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authors:
  - dgash
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<p class="intro">
Push messaging allows developers to engage users by providing timely and customized content outside the context of the web page. *Push* and *Notification* are different, but complementary, functions: a *push* is the action of the server supplying message information to a service worker; a *notification* is the action of the service worker sending the information to a user.</p>

Add landing page for push primer
Add landing page for push primer