Simple Interactive Snackbar & Toast Notification In Vanilla JavaScript – notifyjs

notifyjs is a vanilla JS notification plugin that shows Material Snackbar and Toasts style notification messages to the user.

How to use it:

1. Install and import the notifyjs.

# NPM
$ npm install @codewithkyle/notifyjs --save

import snackbar from "@codewithkyle/notifyjs/snackbar";

2. Or import the modules from a CDN.

import toaster from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@codewithkyle/notifyjs@5/dist/toaster.js";
import snackbar from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@codewithkyle/notifyjs@5/dist/snackbar.js";
import notifications from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@codewithkyle/notifyjs@5/dist/notifications.js";
import sonner from "https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@codewithkyle/notifyjs@5/dist/sonner.js";

3. Create a snackbar notification on the page.

snackbar({
  // required snackbar message
  message: 'Snackbar Notification Message',
  // optional settings
  duration?: number; // in seconds
  closeable?: boolean;
  buttons?: Array<{
    label: string;
    callback: Function;
    ariaLabel?: string;
    classes?: Array<string> | string;
    autofocus?: boolean;
    event?: string;
    eventData?: any;
  }>;
  force?: boolean; // defaults to true
  classes?: Array<string> | string;
  autofocus?: boolean; // defaults to true
});

4. Create a toast notification on the page.

import toaster from "@codewithkyle/notifyjs/toaster";
toaster.push({
  // required toast message
  message: 'Toast Notification Message',
  // optional settings
  message: string;
  duration?: number; // in seconds
  classes?: string | string[];
});

5. Create a growl-style notification box on the page.

import notifications from "@codewithkyle/notifyjs/notifications";
notifications.push({
  // required notification message
  title: 'Notification Title',
  message: 'Notification Message',
  // optional settings
  closeable?: boolean;
  icon?: string; // svg or img
  duration?: number; // in seconds
  classes?: string[];
  autofocus?: boolean; // defaults to true
  buttons?: Array<{
    label: string;
    callback: Function;
    ariaLabel?: string;
    classes?: Array<string> | string;
    autofocus?: boolean;
    event?: string;
    eventData?: any;
  }>;
  timer?: "vertical" | "horizontal" | null; // defaults to null
});

6. Create a ‘Sonner’ notification.

import sonner from "@codewithkyle/notifyjs/sonner";
sonner.push({
  message: string;
  duration?: number; // in seconds
  closeable?: boolean;
  buttons?: Array<{
    label: string;
    callback?: Function;
    ariaLabel?: string;
    classes?: Array<string> | string;
    autofocus?: boolean;
    event?: string;
    eventData?: any;
  }>;
  force?: boolean; // defaults to true
  classes?: Array<string> | string;
  autofocus?: boolean; // defaults to true
});

7. Apply your own CSS styles and animations to the notifications.

<!-- Snackbar HTML Structure -->
<snackbar-component>
  <p>Custom notification message</p>
  <snackbar-actions>
    <button>Action</button>
    <button class="close">
      <svg />
    </button>
  </snackbar-actions>
</snackbar-component>

<!-- Toast HTML Structure -->
<toaster-component>
  <output role="status">Custom toast message.</output>
</toaster-component>

<!-- Notification HTML Structure -->
<notifications-component>
  <notification-component>
    <i>
      <svg />
    </i>
    <copy-wrapper>
      <h3>Title</h3>
      <p>Custom notification message</p>
      <notification-actions>
        <button>Action</button>
      </notification-actions>
    </copy-wrapper>
    <button class="close">
      <svg />
    </button>
    <notification-timer class="vertical || horizontal"></notification-timer>
  </notification-component>
</notifications-component>

<!-- Sonner HTML Structure -->
<sonner-component>
  <sonner-toast-component>
    <copy-wrapper>
      <h3>Example heading</h3>
      <p>This is an example sonner message.</p>
    </copy-wrapper>
    <button>Click me</button>
  </sonner-toast-component>
</sonner-component>

8. Custom events.

// notify:sonner
// notify:alert
// notify:toast
// notify:snackbar
const event = new CustomEvent("notify:sonner", {
  detail: {
    heading: "Sonner Example",
    message: `Example sonner toast message.`,
  }
});
window.dispatchEvent(event);

Changelog:

v5.0.0 (03/16/2025)

• Added Sonner notification
• Added Custom event triggers
• Added Custom event callbacks

v4.1.0 (05/30/2023)

• Update

v3.1.1 (01/16/2022)

• Bugfix

v3.1.0 (03/27/2021)

• improved snackbar rendering performance
• improved toast rendering performance
• reduced package size

v3.0.0 (03/26/2021)

• snackbar notifications now default to force: true
• closeable snackbar and toaster notifications now default autofocus: true
• new append() function
• bugs fixed

v2.1.1 (01/21/2021)

• Fixed: snackbar undefined element when forced bug

v2.1.0 (11/09/2020)

• Added ability to autofocus buttons
• Added role attributes to snackbar and toast notifications
• Added: toast notifications can contain buttons
• Added: toast notification timers
• Fixed: toast notifications now stack with newest notifications appearing at the bottom (better UX/expected notification behavior)

v2.0.3 (09/16/2020)

• Fixed snackbar button without class bug

v2.0.1 (04/24/2020)

• Refactored elements into web components
• Renamed NotificationManager() to Notifier()
• Fixed: toast components use node.inserBefore() instead of forcing the column-reverse CSS property to render in the correct order
• Removed deprecated position value
• Removed notify() export — replaced with snackbar()

v1.2.2 (04/18/2020)

• Fixed toaster notification null check bug
• Fixed toaster notification close button bug

v1.2.0 (04/05/2020)

• toaster notification toast() creation
• renames existing notification funciton to snackbar()

v1.1.0 (02/12/2020)

• Added support for applying dynamic notificaiton classes
• Added support for dynamic button classes
• Added generic material design based CSS stylesheet

v1.0.2 (01/10/2020)

• new notify export providing access to a global notification manager

v1.0.0 (12/16/2019)

• Added TypeScript declaration file for Notify.js
• Updated to ES2019
• Removed support for IE 11
• Removed minimum notification duration

v0.2.0 (09/30/2019)

• Reworked library to use window.requestAnimationFrame instead of setTimeout in order to increase performance
• Notifications are queued and will be displayed in the order they’re submitted
• Added positioning information/values
• Updated HTML structure to allow for more robust layouts/designs
• Removed the 10 second maximum notification duration