Lie-Fi

A command line util to locally test NodeJS web apps with Lie-Fi and bad connection quality! This utility comes in handy when developing offline-first web applications!

Usage

First install the package globally using npm install lie-fi -g in the terminal and then browse your application folder and type in the terminal:

lie-fi app.js -c lie-fi -p 3000

A server on the port 3000 will start with your express/NodeJS http server and will emulate a Lie-Fi connection.

IMPORTANT: app.js (or any file at your choice) must not call app.listen(...), but instead must export the app object that should start listening. So you can replace app.listen(...) with module.exports = app.

The command line format is the following:

lie-fi [js_file_exporting_server_without_listening].js -c [offline|lie-fi|slow|perfect] -p [port]

Thanks

Thanks to jakearchibald, who gave the idea and the basic code to setup this easily reusable library!