Can Novu be installed as part of my current Express project or does it have to be a standalone service in a separate package?

[codeser]

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I noticed the way to install Novu is using

npx novu init

Can I instead do an npm install novu in my current Express project, save novu as a library and call it internally from my other files/functions?

[scopsy]

Hi @codeser! Unfortunately, novu can only be consumed as a standalone service using the HTTP API. You can either self-host it yourself or use our cloud offering, regarding each path you will choose would love to assist setting it up 🙏

You could still install @novu/node to make the trigger calls to the Novu Platform API, but you won't be able to do that before the API is running somewhere as a standalone service.