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 27 2022
1. toast.js
toast.js is a super simple JavaScript library that shows Android style toast messages on your web applications. The toast message will destroy itself in a given amount of time.
2. Cute Alert
A Vanilla JavaScript dialog popup library to create alert notifications, confirm popup boxes, and toast messages on the web app.
3. Simple Toast-like Prompt Popup – TaTa.js
An easy-to-use JavaScript plugin for showing toast-like notification popups on your web app.
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. js-snackbar
A pure JavaScript plugin that helps you create Material Design inspired non-blocking snackbars & toast notifications on the web app.
6. JavaScript Plugin For Custom Toast Notifications – Simple Notify
A simple notification JavaScript plugin for displaying highly customizable, toast-style alert popups on the page.
7. VanillaToasts
VanillaToasts is a lightweight and easy-to-use vanilla JavaScript library for displaying toast-style notifications on your website / web application. Currently supports 4 different types of notifications: success, info, warning and error.
8. siiimple-Toast
Yet another ES6 notification library that helps you display animated Material inspired toast messages on the webpage.
9. Modern Toast Popup JavaScript Library – EggyJS
A modern, fast, zero-dependency JavaScript notification library for displaying toast-style notification popups on the web app.
10. Flash (Toast) Messages In JavaScript – notify.js
Yet another toast style notification library to send temporary flash messages to end-users.
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