http-server-pwa
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http-server alike but for serving and rendering PWA. Built on top of ExpressJS
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http-server-pwa aka pwa-server
http-server alike but for serving and rendering PWA: pwa-server
What
This is a different version (btw inspired by) of the insta-ready http-server, but with some key features to render Progressive Web Apps (or also SPA) correctly for bots like googlebot
or Facebook crawlers, so your application can be crawled with its content already loaded. This should avoid the killing problem of the SEO for PWAs.
The server will render as normal, static ExpressJS server for your normal users.
Worth noting is that the server supports the history-fallback
behavior. You maybe can avoid that # (hash) for your PWA navigation ✌️.
Features
The server is not "dependecies-free" like the original http-server and instead is powered by ExpressJS under the hood and Puppeter for render the pages to bots.
- pupperender - Puppeter middleware to render correctly the PWA content for the crawlers.
- express-history-api-fallback - to fallback correctly to the
index.html
. - express-http-to-https - automatically redirect
http
requests tohttps
. - devcert - Create development certificate on the fly for local
https
. NOTE: you could be prompted to insert your password before starting the server. This is necessary of using OpenSSL. More info on devcert repository.
Production usage
The server will not create any SSL certificate on the fly when you set process.env.NODE_ENV = production
even if --ssl
flag is passed down.
You have two alternatives here:
- use a reverse proxy like CloudFlare and get free certification for your domain - easy peasy
- use a custom reverse proxy like Nginx and load your certification from there
I currently don't want to support a custom certificate load. PR are always welcome.
Deploy on Heroku
In order to make the server work as expected on Heroku services (even on free tier) you must add the puppeteer-heroku-buildpack.
Since recent changes on the platform it is strongly suggested to add it from source rather than the buildpack's catalogs.
$ heroku buildpacks:set https://github.com/jontewks/puppeteer-heroku-buildpack.git
Usage
You can use it programmatically or as a CLI tool (global or local).
Install
$ yarn add http-server-pwa
Usage
const httpServerPwa = require('http-server-pwa');
const server = await httpServerPwa('./dist', {p: 3000});
//=> Server started -> ./dist localhost:3000
API
httpServerPwa(path, [options])
path
Type: string
Path to serve.
options
| Name | CLI flag | Type | Default | Description |
|------|--------------|------|---------|-------------|
| port | p | number
| 8080
| Port to use for running the server. |
| host | h | string
| localhost
| Host to use for running the server. |
| fallback | f | string
| index.html
| Fallback HTML file name. |
| https | s | boolean
| false
| Enable HTTPS redirect on localhost
.|
| ssl | | boolean
| false
| Enable devcert
auto-generation of SSL certification for development.|
| cache | c | boolean
| false
| Enable cache for Puppeteer rendering|
| cacheTTL | | number
| 3600
(s) | Seconds until cached content is disregarded and puppeterized again. Only considered when cache
is true.|
| debug | d | boolean
| false
| If or not show some logs.|
| gzip | g | boolean
| false
| Enable serving of gzipped files if available|
| brotli | b | boolean
| false
| Enable serving of brotli compressed files if available|
Note: If the gzip and brotli option are both toggled, brotli compressed files will get precedence over gzipped files.
CLI
$ yarn add --global http-server-pwa
$ http-server-pwa --help # or pwa-server --help
Usage
$ http-server-pwa [path] [options]
Options
-p --port Port to use [Default: 8080]
-h --host Host to use [Default: localhost | Windows: 127.0.0.1]
-f --fallback Fallback HTML file name [Default: index.html]
-s --https Enable HTTPS redirect on localhost [Default: false]
--ssl Auto-generation SSL certificate during development [Default: false]
-c --cache Enable cache for Puppeteer rendering [Default: false]
--cacheTTL Seconds until cached content is disregarded and puppeterized again [Default: 3600 (s)].
-d --debug Be more verbose [Default: false]
-g --gzip Enable serving of gzipped files if available [Default: false]
-b --brotli Enable serving of brotli compressed files if available [Default: false]
-h --help Show this message
Examples
$ http-server-pwa
Server started -> ./ localhost:8080
$ http-server-pwa dist -p 3000
Server started -> ./dist localhost:3000
License
MIT © LasaleFamine