How to create realtime alerting and communication system using a best-of-breed solution One of the main benefits of building with Next.js is the ease of leveraging APIs and components to quickly integrate with best-of-breed, backend technology. Today released our new notification system as a public beta, made possible with the help of our integration partner Knock , their powerful API, and robust component library. This post will cover how we chose and implemented Knock for our notification center, and how you can use Knock to build notifications into your own application. Link to heading The case for Knock The first step in building our new notification system was to evaluate our technology options and choose a path forward. As we considered the infrastructure we wanted to build our system on top of, we knew we needed a platform that could match our needs for iteration speed, reliability, and observability .…