koa-chrome-render

chrome-render middleware for koa.

Modern web app use technique like react.js vue.js which render html in browser, this cause some problem like search engine can't crawl your page content or first screen slow on low performance device.

This project want to solve this kind of problem in a general-purpose way which use headless chrome to render page result then return to client.

Use

npm i koa-chrome-render

then use it:

const Koa = require('koa');
const chromeRenderMiddleware = require('koa-chrome-render');
const app = new Koa();
 
app.use(chromeRenderMiddleware({
    enable: true,
    render: {
        // use `window.isPageReady=1` to notify chrome-render page has ready
        useReady: true,
    }
}));
 
app.listen(3000);

you can download and run this complete demo which will use chrome-render for mobile device else return html direct.

Options

enable options

should enable this middleware for every single request ? it's type can be boolean or function. if type is function, result = enable(request); this can be used to control whether use chrome to render in some case, e.g koa-seo.

render options

options come form chrome-render

• maxTab: number max tab chrome will open to render pages, default is no limit, maxTab used to avoid open to many tab lead to chrome crash. ChromeRender will create a tab poll to reuse tab for performance improve and resource reduce as open and close tab in chrome require time, like database connection poll.
• renderTimeout: number in ms, chromeRender.render() will throw error if html string can't be resolved after renderTimeout, default is 5000ms.
• useReady: boolean whether use window.isPageReady=1 to notify chrome-render page has ready. default is false chrome-render use domContentEventFired as page has ready.
• script: string is an option param. inject script source to evaluate when page on load

also koa-chrome-render will read:

• headers from request HTTP headers and attach to chrome-render's request
• cookies from request HTTP headers and attach to chrome-render's request

Friends

• koa-chrome-render dependent on chrome-render general server render base on chrome.
• koa-seo koa SEO middleware
• chrome-pool Headless chrome tabs manage pool.