generic-server-render

Render output html at an url.

Why?

Easy to use server-side rendering to aid crawlers better "see" your site

example: Search engine optimization

Troubleshooting

Rendering hangs and the callback is never called with an error or the result? Are you running in a headless environment? If so here's the solution

For other issues, you can add DEBUG=nightmare*,electron:* as an environment variable for your application and submit the log here.

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Install

npm i --save generic-server-render

Up to speed:

const Renderer = require('generic-server-render');
 
// Full costumization
const renderer = new Renderer({
  poolSize: 2,
  width: 1000,
  height: 500,
  agent: 'My Awesome Renderer',
  nightmare: {
    webPreferences: {
      images: false
    },
    show: true,
    openDevTools: {
      mode: 'detach'
    }
  },
  filter: {
    options: {
      urls: ['*']
    },
    fn: function(details, cb) {
      //cancel a specific file
 
      const type = details.resourceType;
      const url = details.url;
      if (url.indexOf('chrome-devtools') === 0) return cb({ cancel: false });
 
      switch (type) {
        case "mainFrame" :
          return cb({ cancel: false });
        case "stylesheet":
          return cb({ cancel: true });
        case "script":
          return cb({ cancel: false });
        case "xhr":
          return cb({ cancel: true });
      }
 
      return cb({ cancel: true });
    }
  }
});
 
renderer.render(option, function(err, html) {
  if (err) {
      return console.error(err);
  }
 
  console.log(html[0].replace(/\n/g, "").substr(0, 79) + "…");
})
 

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Options

New render instance

[Optional]
    - width {Number} : width of the viewport
    - height {Number} : height of the viewport
    - poolSize {Number} : number of opened browsers
    - nightmare {Object} : extra nightmare options, see [nightmare documentation](https://github.com/segmentio/nightmare)
    - filter {Object} : filter requests, see [nightmare-load-filter documentation](https://github.com/rosshinkley/nightmare-load-filter)
        - options : {Object}
            - urls : String[]
        - fn : {function}

Posting a render job

[Options]
    - querySelector {String} : query to the the element(s) desired (default is 'html')
    - url {String} : website location
    - wait {String|Number|function} : wait for elemnt / time / function to be ready
    - jsAfter {function} : run a function in the context of the browser
    - jsAfterWait {String|Number|function} : wait for jsAfter for finish (if any)

[Callback]
    - Error / null
    - String[]

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License

Code is licensed under MIT