phearjs-express

PhearJS (http://phear.io) is a prerender for client-side dynamic web pages. To serve prendered versions of your website to bots like the ones from Yahoo, Bing, Yandex, Google and so forth you can use this Express middleware. When a bot is detected the middleware will serve a prerendered version of your page.

Installation

You should have a PhearJS instance running somewhere. For setup instructions please refer to these installation instructions.

If you have that running, install phearjs-express middleware:

npm install phearjs-express

Usage

Default usage

Add the following code to your Express app and every request will automatically be served prerendered only if necessary.

var prerender = require('phearjs-express');
app.use(prerender({}));

Custom PhearJS endpoint

var prerender = require('phearjs-express');
app.use(prerender({phear_url: http://192.168.1.42:1337}));

Custom user agent for PhearJS

var prerender = require('phearjs-express');
app.use(prerender({phear_agent: 'MyVerySpecialPhearJSBot/0.1.2'}));

Bugs / contribute

If something doesn't work as expected or breaks, please create an issue. When you feel like fixing an issue or improving this middleware, feel free to open an issue and create a pull request!

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