# novuhq/novu

The open-source communication infrastructure for agents and products

Repository: https://github.com/novuhq/novu
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/novu
Homepage: https://go.novu.co/github
Language: TypeScript
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: notifications, communication, email, sms, push-notifications, transactional, typescript, nodejs, notification-center, react, reactjs, inbox, novu, agents, infrastructure
Last push: 2026-08-26T14:55:03+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 94/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 84, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 1833, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 26, "gap_med": 0, "n_releases_24m": 108}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 39674, forks 4441 (observed 2026-08-28T04:12:07.969170+00:00)

## What it is
Novu is an open-source communication infrastructure platform that provides a unified API for sending notifications (in-app inbox, email, SMS, push, chat) and connecting AI agents to messaging channels like Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, and Telegram. It includes SDKs for TypeScript/Node.js and React, a drop-in Inbox component, workflow orchestration for notification logic, and 80+ provider integrations.

## Use cases
- send multi-channel notifications from my app
- add an in-app notification inbox to my React or Next.js app
- send transactional emails and SMS with one API
- connect my AI agent to Slack and WhatsApp
- build notification workflows with digest and delay logic
- switch email providers without rewriting code
- send push notifications to mobile and web users
- route alerts to PagerDuty or custom webhooks per subscriber

## When to choose
- you need unified multi-channel notification delivery (email, SMS, push, in-app, chat) behind a single API
- you want a ready-made in-app notification center/inbox component for React or Next.js
- you want to embed AI agents into Slack, Teams, WhatsApp, or Telegram with conversation state handled for you
- you need provider flexibility to swap email/SMS vendors without code changes
- you want workflow features like digests, delays, throttling, and per-subscriber routing

## When to avoid
- you only need a single channel like plain email and a lightweight library suffices
- you need a fully self-hosted setup but cannot operate the platform's infrastructure dependencies
- your use case is one-way broadcast messaging with no need for workflows or conversation state
- you require a permissive license for redistribution and the NOASSERTION license terms are a blocker

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: webhook, email, chatbot, agent-framework, sdk, ui-components, workflow-automation, api-framework
- domain: messaging-platforms, developer-tools, backend, web-development, large-language-models, apis
- platform: cross-platform, self-hosted
- tags: notification-infrastructure, multi-channel-messaging, in-app-inbox, push-notifications, sms, transactional-email, agent-communication, notification-workflows, messaging-providers, conversation-infrastructure, ai-agents, automation, nodejs, typescript, react, web-server

## Member repositories
- novuhq/novu (main) score 94

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:07.969170+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T16:24:06.572694+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/novuhq/novu (fetched 2026-08-28T04:12:07.969170+00:00, sha 480defd0b3a1)
  - homepage: https://go.novu.co/github (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:06.430535+00:00, sha 734eae13d841)
  - site_page: https://docs.novu.co/platform/quickstart/nextjs (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:06.437335+00:00, sha 5259fcd74d37)
  - site_page: https://docs.novu.co/ (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:06.443302+00:00, sha dca46a21a283)
  - site_page: https://novu.co/pricing (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:06.433906+00:00, sha ace5ebe34692)
  - site_page: https://novu.co/integrations (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:06.440118+00:00, sha 3037fff16916)
  - site_page: https://novu.co/changelog (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:06.445913+00:00, sha c0771a86fb81)
  - site_page: https://novu.co/connect (fetched 2026-08-29T07:47:06.448385+00:00, sha 0426d77de284)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.