Board Thread:General Coding Help/@comment-29826282-20170311011615/@comment-27345308-20170311153954

You don't actually need to send an HTTP request for that unless the notifications haven't loaded, though. You could try taking it from DOM and if that fails send an HTTP request to Nirvana.

Unless you want to automatically refresh the data about current notifications, then you should always use Nirvana, I suppose.