Try it live

This is the same @hogsend/js + @hogsend/react you just installed, running on these docs. You are an anonymous visitor — no login, no identify call. The bell in the top-right is your feed. Fire an event below and watch a journey reach it.

import { days } from "@hogsend/core";
import { defineJourney, sendFeedItem } from "@hogsend/engine";
import { DemoEvents } from "./constants/index.js";

export const demoWelcome = defineJourney({
  meta: {
    id: "demo-welcome",
    name: "Demo — In-app welcome",
    enabled: true,
    trigger: { event: DemoEvents.WELCOME }, // "demo.welcome"
    entryLimit: "unlimited",                // re-fire freely
    suppress: days(0),
  },
  run: async (user) => {
    const n = user.properties.name;
    const name = typeof n === "string" && n ? n : "there";
    await sendFeedItem({
      recipient: { anonymousId: user.id }, // your canonical key
      type: "welcome",
      title: `Welcome, ${name} 👋`,
      body: "You fired an event. A journey ran. This is the result.",
      actionUrl: "https://hogsend.com/docs/client-side/try",
      journeyStateId: user.stateId,
    });
  },
});

What just happened

Nothing on this page is faked. The button called client.capture("demo.welcome", { name }). That POSTed a first-party event (source: "inapp") carrying your anonymous id. The engine resolved it to a canonical contact key, a journey triggered on demo.welcome, read your name off the event, and called sendFeedItem({ recipient: { anonymousId: <your key> } }) — which published to the exact feed the bell polls.

The round-trip uses one identity the whole way. The browser never identified itself: a pk_ publishable key has no user token, so client.getDistinctId() stays the anonymous id and userId stays null. Personalization rides as an event property, not an identify call — the journey reads user.properties.name and writes it into the notification title.

The item carries an actionUrl, so clicking the row emits inapp.item_clicked — another first-party event, one a journey can trigger on. The loop closes on itself.

// the demo journey, in full — apps/api/src/journeys/demo-inapp.ts
export const demoWelcome = defineJourney({
  meta: {
    id: "demo-welcome",
    trigger: { event: DemoEvents.WELCOME }, // "demo.welcome"
    entryLimit: "unlimited", // re-fire the demo freely
    suppress: days(0),
  },
  run: async (user) => {
    const n = user.properties.name;
    const name = typeof n === "string" && n ? n : "there";
    await sendFeedItem({
      recipient: { anonymousId: user.id }, // re-resolves to your canonical key
      type: "welcome",
      title: `Welcome, ${name} 👋`,
      body: "You fired an event. A journey ran. This is the result.",
      actionUrl: "https://hogsend.com/docs/client-side/try",
      journeyStateId: user.stateId,
    });
  },
});