FitLayout - Puppeteer

(c) 2015-2021 Radek Burget ([email protected])

Puppeteer-based web page renderer backend for FitLayout. It uses puppeteer for driving a built-in Chromium web browser and getting the box representation of the rendered page. This package provides a backend for the FItLayout Puppeteer renderer.

Requirements

Node.js version 14 or greater and npm version 6 or later are required for installing the package.

Installation

Run the following commands for creating the fitlayout-puppeteer folder and configuring the backend.

git clone https://github.com/FitLayout/fitlayout-puppeteer.git
cd fitlayout-puppeteer
npm install

You may run node index.js -h for checking that the backend works correctly. However, in normal circumstances, the package is invoked internally by the FitLayout renderer so nothing needs to be invoked manually here.

For using the puppeteer-backend, FitLayout must be provided by the path to the created fitlayout-puppeteer folder using the fitlayout.puppeteer.backend Java system property. This may be done via the Java command line (the -D option) or in a config.properties file located in the working directory as described in Configuration.

The FitLayout docker images contain a configured ready-to use puppeteer renderer. No further configuration is necessary when using the docker images.