What is profile update notification in Node.js

When a user changes their profile it is important to let other parts of your system know.

Sending push notifications on profile updates helps keep user data in sync across services.

For example you might notify a dashboard when John Smith changes his email.

What is Operational

Operational is an open source event tracking tool.

It lets you send events from any tech product.

You can use Operational to track profile updates and trigger push notifications.

Setting up Operational

1. Go to app.operational.co and sign up.

2. Create a new project in the dashboard.

3. Copy your API key from the project settings.

4. Install the SDK in your Node.js app:

   npm install @operational.co/sdk

Code example

import Operational from "@operational.co/sdk"

const ops = new Operational("API_KEY")

const payload = {
  name: "profile_update",
  avatar: "👤",
  content: "User John Smith updated their profile",
  properties: {
    userId: 123,
    updatedFields: ["email", "avatar"]
  }
}

await ops.events.ingest(payload)

This snippet shows how to send a profile_update event with user details and changed fields.

Conclusion

Using Operational saves time by handling event tracking and notifications for you.

You can learn more at https://operational.co.

Try copy, paste, and play with snippets in the Operational playground: https://operational.co/playground.