Firebase Push Notifications Failing in Bolt App

Your Bolt.new application is set up with Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM) for push notifications, but users never receive them. The notification permission prompt may not appear, tokens fail to generate, or notifications are sent from the backend but never arrive on users' devices.

Push notifications are essential for user re-engagement: notifying users about new messages, order updates, price alerts, or time-sensitive events. When they don't work, your app loses its ability to bring users back, and you have to rely entirely on email which has much lower engagement rates.

Firebase push notifications involve multiple moving parts: a service worker on the client, a valid FCM token per device, proper Firebase configuration, and a server-side component that sends the actual notifications. Bolt's AI typically sets up some of these pieces but misses critical configuration steps.