Problem Statement

Notifications are a key component allowing us to send information to the users or notify them when something happen on their workspaces, account or templates.

For now, Coder only supports SMTP and Webhook, which both require configuration and do not support some of the features we'd like to introduce as categorization, read status and filtering.

Proposal

Based on that, a new delivery target has been discussed - Coder Inbox: a no-configuration delivery target that can be integrated into all Coder components, from Web UI to IDE, CLI, API… and has the advantage of pushing the notification to the end user, wherever its focus is.

For the scope of the first version, the Coder Inbox will be integrated with VS Code for OOM & OOD Notifications and with the Web UI.

PRs created for each step :

Backend

• Create new delivery target - Coder Inbox internal#334
• Coder Inbox API Endpoints internal#335

Consumers

• Coder Inbox Web UI internal#336
• Deliver notifications to the Coder VSCode extension internal#337

Doc, testing and release

• Coder Inbox documentation internal#338
• Coder Inbox smoke testing internal#339
• Coder Inbox GA release internal#340