Prebid Universal Creative

Prebid Universal Creative is a javascript api to render multiple formats. This file is inserted into the prebid creative as a placeholder for the winning prebid creative. It should support the following formats:

• Banner
• Outstream Video
• Mobile (Coming Soon)
• AMP creatives
• All safeFrame creatives

Install

$ git clone https://github.com/prebid/prebid-universal-creative.git
$ cd prebid-universal-creative
$ npm install

Build for development

$ gulp serve

Starts a web server at http://localhost:9999 serving from the project root and generates the following files:

• ./build/creative.js - Full source code for dev and debug
• ./build/creative.js.map - Source map for dev and debug

Build for production

We publish prebid-universal-creative as npm package on npmjs.com

When we run npm publish, prepublish script of package.json is executed. Scripts given in prepublish Run BEFORE the package is packed and published. See https://docs.npmjs.com/misc/scripts

gulp build is executed before publish. It creates two files in dist directory

• ./dist/creative.js - Minified creative.js source code
• ./dist/creative.max.js - Unminified source code to help in debugging.

jsDelivr – Open Source CDN is used to serve creative.js file.

Test

We like to test a lot before releasing newer versions.

gulp test // Run unit tests in your local environment

Set the environment variables. You may want to add these to your ~/.bashrc for convenience.

export BROWSERSTACK_USERNAME="my browserstack username"
export BROWSERSTACK_ACCESS_KEY="my browserstack access key"

gulp test --browserstack

For End to End testing,

• Set test.localhost in your hosts file.
• Use node version <=8.1.2 since gulp-connect is having a bug in ssl mode. More info here https://github.com/intesso/connect-livereload/issues/79

gulp test --e2e --https

Reason to add specific host to your host file is

• To test against your local build, we had to give local path in dfp creative. Redirecting request is not possible in browserstack.
• On localhost domain you do not receive bid from certain SSP's, hence you have to have some host defined in hosts file. As of now we are using test.localhost defined in local host file as well as DFP creative.

Contributing

Found a bug? Great! This project is in its infancy, and many things can be improved.

Report bugs, request features, and suggest improvements on Github.

Or better yet, open a pull request with the changes you'd like to see.