What is notification?

rc-notification is a building block for React apps that lets developers show small pop-up messages to users, things like "Saved successfully," "New message arrived," or "Something went wrong." If you've ever seen a little toast or banner slide in from the corner of a website telling you something happened, this library handles creating and managing those. At a high level, a developer imports the library and creates a notification instance, think of it as a container that manages all the pop-ups on a page. When something happens in the app that warrants telling the user about, the developer calls a method on that instance with the content they want to show. Each notice can be configured with options like how long it stays visible (defaulting to 1.5 seconds), whether it has a close button, and what happens when it closes. Developers can also set a maximum number of notices visible at once, and if that limit is exceeded, the oldest one gets dropped. This library is aimed at developers building React web applications who need a lightweight, customizable notification system. For example, if you're building a SaaS dashboard and want to confirm to users that their profile was updated, or show an alert when a form submission fails, this component handles the display logic. It works across modern browsers including IE11, Edge, Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and Electron-based apps. The project is written in TypeScript and keeps its bundle size small. The README doesn't go into much detail about the motivation behind the project or its design philosophy, it's a fairly barebones component library with a straightforward API, focused on doing one thing well rather than offering extensive features or visual styling out of the box.