[mohab-elshamy]

Summary

Implemented an extensible notification system for AnalySim with persistent in-app notifications and configurable user preferences.

Notifications are event-based: controllers publish a NotificationEvent, while INotificationService handles recipients, preferences, persistence, and email delivery where supported.

What Changed

• Added notification entities, preferences, EF Core mappings, and migration.

• Added INotificationService to centralize notification handling.

• Added APIs for notifications, unread count, read state, and preferences.

• Added notifications for:

  • Comment replies
  • Users added to projects
  • Users following/joining projects
  • Project log creation and updates

• Existing comment reply emails now go through the shared notification service.

Notifications UI

Added a navbar notification bell, unread badge, and notifications dropdown.

Notification Preferences

Added user-level notification preference settings for supported notification types.

Verification

• dotnet ef database update
• dotnet run --environment Development

[cengique]

Confirmed that it works for comments, joining, and project updates!

Some feedback:

• clicking outside of notification popup should close it
• couldn't test "users added to projects" because join button doesn't work? How to add people to projects? But I did get a notification that a user has been added, although the user does not actually get added to the project.