The toast notification is primarily used for system messaging. It can help keep you informed of what’s happening in your app without getting in the way. Typically it also displays at the bottom of the screen, but may not be swiped off-screen. Learn more about Snackbars & toasts.
What if you want to create toast notifications in JavaScript? Is that even possible? As it turns out, the answer is yes! In this blog post, I’ll show you the 10 Best JavaScript plugins/libraries to create Android and Material Design-inspired toast notification messages on your modern web app. So whether you’re building a website or an app, these notification libraries can come in handy. Enjoy!
Originally Published Dec 26 2017, updated Jan 16 2023
1. Simple Responsive Alert- and Growl-style Notification Plugin For JavaScript – notie.js
A pure JavaScript library that makes it easy to create responsive, flat styled notification popups and dialog boxes with different types on the webpage.
2. Responsive Configurable Toast Notification Library – iziToast
A simple, fast yet fully configurable JavaScript used to create responsive, elegant and CSS3 animated toast notifications of various types in the screen.
3. Growl And Toast Style Alert Notification Library – Notyf
A very small and simple-to-use JavaScript library used for display growl- and toast-style alert/success notification messages on the screen. Responsive, accessible and easy to use.
4. Simple Vanilla JavaScript Toast Notification Library – Toastify
A simple, lightweight, vanilla JavaScript library used for sending stackable, non-blocking toast messages to end-users.
5. Create Android-style Toasts And Notification Bars With Pure JavaScript – native-toast
A native JavaScript library which lets you display Android/Material style toast messages and notification bars on the web applications. The toast notification can be placed anywhere on the webpage and come with 4 additional types: error, warning, success and info.
6. Customizable Toast Notification Plugin For Bulma Framework
A JavaScript plugin for creating customizable toast notifications based on Bulma’s Notification component.
7. Toast-style Web Notifications In Vanilla JavaScript – VanillaToasts
A lightweight and easy-to-use vanilla JavaScript library for displaying toast-style notifications on your website / web application.
8. JavaScript Plugin For Custom Toast Notifications – Simple Notify
A simple notification JavaScript plugin for displaying highly customizable, toast-style alert popups on the page.
9. Google Style Toast & Snackbar Popup In JavaScript – Material Toast
Yet another Google Material inspired toast & snackbar plugin written in Vanilla JavaScript.
10. js-snackbar
A pure JavaScript plugin that helps you create Material Design inspired non-blocking snackbars & toast notifications on the web app.
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