# Notification Center

Persistent queue-based notification panel with useNotifications hook



<ComponentPreview base="opentui" name="notification-center-demo" />

Installation [#installation]

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    ```bash
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        Copy and paste the following code into your project.
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      <ComponentSource base="opentui" name="notification-center" title="components/ui/notification-center.tsx" />

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Usage [#usage]

```tsx
import { NotificationCenter } from "@/components/ui/notification-center";
import { useNotifications } from "@/hooks/use-notifications";
```

```tsx
const { notify } = useNotifications();

notify({
  title: "Build complete",
  body: "All checks passed",
  variant: "success",
});

<NotificationCenter maxVisible={5} width={40} />;
```

API Reference [#api-reference]

NotificationCenter [#notificationcenter]

| Prop         | Type     | Default |
| ------------ | -------- | ------- |
| `maxVisible` | `number` | `5`     |
| `width`      | `number` | `40`    |