# Push notifications, an advice from your experience?

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/push-notifications-an-advice-from-your-experience/100153>\
**Category:** ionic-v3\
**Created:** [July 30, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/push-notifications-an-advice-from-your-experience/100153 "2017-07-30T13:23:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Marclan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/59ef9b/32.png) [@Marclan](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/Marclan)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 1:23pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/push-notifications-an-advice-from-your-experience/100153/1 "2017-07-30T13:23:53Z")

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Hi Ionic people!  
I have to choose the way to implement push notifications to my Ionic 2 app. I’ll use a third party server to authenticate my users and after that i need to handle some messages between them.  
I thought in the first place to use Ionic push but when i saw the limited push notifications i abandoned it. In this moment i’m thinking to use Firebase cloud messaging for my iOS and Android users. So the question is, which is the better plugin to use?  
I saw some alternatives:

- [https://github.com/arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase](https://github.com/arnesson/cordova-plugin-firebase) (Ionic site marks it in beta version)
- [https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-fcm](https://www.npmjs.com/package/cordova-plugin-fcm) (i read that it’s not well manteined)
- [https://github.com/angular/angularfire2](https://github.com/angular/angularfire2) (this is focused on Angular 2, UPDATE: offical library but it doesn’t allow push notifications)
- phonegap-plugin-push

I would love to hear what are you using and if there is a better choice to make. Thanks!