As a developer, we want to offer to the client a product that works perfectly. Of course we cannot neglect the style of an application. Around the web you'll find a lot of notification plugins that will do the hardjob for you greatly simplifying the development time.
Even searching for a plugin that fits to your need is not an easy task and requires time. To make your life easier, we have collected in a top, the most useful and beautiful notification plugins in javascript and jQuery for your web applications.
10. Bootbox
Everyone of us love bootstrap, do you ? Bootbox.js is a small JavaScript library which allows you to create programmatic dialog boxes using Bootstrap modals, without having to worry about creating, managing or removing any of the required DOM elements or JS event handlers. You need obviously, bootstrap included previously in your project.
9. Noty
NOTY is a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to create alert - success - error - warning - information - confirmation messages as an alternative the standard alert dialog. Each notification is added to a queue. (Optional) The notifications can be positioned at the: top - topLeft - topCenter - topRight - center - centerLeft - centerRight - bottom - bottomLeft - bottomCenter - bottomRight
Very simplistic and easy to use.
8. Toastr
Toastr is a jQuery plugin, the goal is to create a simple core library that can be easily customized and extended.
The notifications are non-blocking, the position, animation and theme are customizable.
7. AmaranJS
AmaranJS is a minimalist notification library.Easy to create, notification animations and includes many themes, easy to adapt your own themes and have callbacks. Highly customizable.
6. Notific8
Notific8 is a JavaScript plug-in for easily displaying toast-style notifications on a web page. It is designed to be easily customizable and comes with several themes (colors) and styles (theme families) baked in with an easy ability to create new ones. The metro style gives a cool touch specially for asp.net developers.
The alert messages will appear on the top-right of the screen (windows 8 style).
5. Notie.js
Notie.js have a interesting design and is very flexible and customizable. It includes confirm and input features.
4. iziToast
Elegant, responsive, flexible and lightweight notification plugin that supports Drag/Touch support with no dependencies. It is supported on all modern browsers (Tested in Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari, IE10+ and Edge). iziToast provides an useful events API (global and per instance) and more than 60 options.
3. VEX
VEX is a modern dialog library which is highly configurable and easy to style, developed by HubSpot. With a cool design, good performance this plugin gets the third place in the top. It has a clear and simple API, works on mobile devices, and can be customized to match your style in seconds. If you're already using Hubspot, VEX is can be a great solution for you- Learn how to integrate HubSpot date here.
2. Sweet Alert
Sweet alert is a beautiful and really sweet replacement for the default alert function of javascript. With a smooth animation , cool design and easy implementation, sweet alert have the second place on this top.
A special feature of sweet alert is that we can trigger an ajax call and await till it is finished, this allows to make the asynchronous handle with the user very easy and comfortable. SweetAlert can easily be themed to fit your site's design.
1. Alertify.js
In the first place we have Alertify.js, this plugin is in our opinion one of the most complete, useful, optimized and cool notification plugins that you will find on the internet for free. However this is not only a plugin, is a javascript framework for developing pretty browser dialogs and notifications. The code is pretty easy to understand and the implementation is a piece of cake, the plugin is very straightforward.
Alertify.js have i18n and RightToLeft Support, have many themes and is customizable to the core.
Honorable mentions
ohSnap!
ohSnap is a simple notification jQuery/Zepto library designed to be used in mobile apps. Really simplistic but with good performance.
If you know another awesome free notification library, please share it with the community in the comment box.