express-renderer
Gives express the ability to render pages via phantomjs for SEO purposes.
installation
$ npm install express-renderer
use
after you instantiate your app you can use the middle-ware like this
app.use(require('express-renderer')({
portPool: [18080,18081,18082,18083,18084], // required
host: 'localhost:4321', // required
userAgentMatch: function (userAgent) {
return true;
}
// phantomOptions: ['--load-images=no', '--disk-cache=yes', '--web-security=no'],
// log: true,
// routeMatch: function () {
// return true
// }
}));when a request fulfills the userAgentMatch, and the routeMatch the server will render the HTML
advanced
if your page needs additional async tasks to be completed you can specify a ServerRendering method that can return true when everything is ready:
window.ServerRendering = navigator.userAgent.match(/PhantomJS/);
if (window.ServerRendering) {
window.ServerRenderingWaitFor = function () {
return window.pageIsReady;
};
}