flaretest

Cache rule testing utility for Cloudflare

Requirements

Node.js 10.x, 12.x, and 14.x

Install

$ yarn add --dev flaretest

or

$ npm install --save-dev flaretest

API

new FlareTest(hostname, options)

• hostname: string - A hostname of the test target website
• options.userAgents: { [userAgentName: string]: string } - User agent strings which FlareTest sends to the test target website

FlareTest.prototype.run(testconfigs)

• testconfigs: object[] - Array of test configs
• testconfigs[].paths: string[] - Array of paths to test
• testconfigs[].cached: boolean - If target paths should be cached by Cloudflare edge
• testconfigs[].redirectHttps: boolean - If it forces redirection to HTTPS URL when users open the target paths
• testconfigs[].status: number - Expected status code
• testconfigs[].cacheLevel: string - Expected cache level. standart, ignoreQueryString, or noQueryString. See Understand Cloudflare Caching Level for each cache levels. You need to purge cache before testing cache level, or the test may fail. Currently noQueryString is not supported yet.

throws: AssertionError when any test item is not matched with expected value.

returns: Promise<void> - a Promise object

Example

Here's an example using Jest:

const { FlareTest } = require("flaretest"); // or import FlareTest from "flaretest";
 
// Initialize flaretest
const flaretest = new FlareTest("example.com", {
  // User agent strings used when flaretest make access to the websites.
  // If two or more user agent strings is listed here, flaretest make accesses
  // for multiple times with each user agent strings
  userAgents: {
    desktop: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/73.0.3163.100 Safari/537.36",
    mobile: "Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 7.1.2; Kingbox Build/NHG47K; wv) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Chrome/73.0.3653.0 Safari/537.36",
  }
});
 
test("Cache rules", async () => {
  await flaretest.run([
    {
      paths: [
        "/foo/bar",
        "/boo",
        "/woo.css",
      ],
      cached: true,
      redirectHttps: true,
      status: 200,
    },
    {
      paths: [
        "/path-with-query",
      ],
      cached: true,
      redirectHttps: true,
      status: 200,
      cacheLevel: "standard", // or ignoreQueryString or noQueryString
    },
  ]);
}, 30000);