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@captaincodeman/app-metadata

v3.0.0-beta.0

Published

Page meta-tags for SEO and social sharing

Downloads

4

Readme

app-metadata

app-metadata is a module to help manage page metadata for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and social sharing (e.g. Twitter cards, OpenGraph).

It will add and remove <meta> elements in the page <head> section based on the JSON object passed to it. This can update page titles while a use navigates a Single Page Application (SPA) or Progressive Web App (PWA) or set the values to be Server-Side Rendered (e.g. using puppeteer).

Any title key will be used to set the page title. description, image and url keys will set the og:... and twitter:... meta values and any other key will be used directly.

The name attribute is used for the <meta> tag unless the key is for an OpenGraph value in which case the property attribute will be set. i.e.

twitter:image metadata will set og:image metadata will set

Usage

Import updateMetadata and call as required:

import { updateMetadata } from 'app-metadata';

updateMetadata({
    title: 'This is the page title',
    description: 'This is the page description',
    keywords: 'these,are,keywords',
    image: 'https://www.example.com/myimage.jpg',
})

Alternatively, use addMetadataListener to register a listener and raise app-metadata CustomEvent with the metadata in the event detail:

import { addMetadataListener } from 'app-metadata';

addMetadataListener()

// elsewhere ...

this.dispatchEvent(new CustomEvent({
    bubbles: true,
    composed: true,
    detail: {
        title: 'This is the page title',
        description: 'This is the page description',
        keywords: 'these,are,keywords',
        image: 'https://www.example.com/myimage.jpg',
    },
}))

Demonstration

To demonstrate this approach does work for SEO I've created a very simple test site using the polymer-cli and added some content with the meta html headers set for each view using this <app-metadata> element.

Here's the meta data set for the main view:

this.fire('app-metadata', {
    title: 'Why use Agile Project Management?',
    description: 'How Agile Project Management Methodologies help compared to the old Waterfall approach to Project Management',
    keywords: 'scrum, scrum master, agile, training, certification, professional, certified, CSM, PSM'
});

This view has been successfully indexed by Google and appears correctly in the search results:

Example