gardr-validator-web

garðr-validator-web

Description: This is the web interface for the garðr validator project.

The main purpose is to find possible errors or regressions in display ads. Its intended to grow over time to a set of rules based on best practices for performance ( although displayads not necessarily can avoid document.write atm ).

The validator takes input as a scripturl or zipfile, html,css and javascript, and produces in 3 steps harvested data and a report.

How does the validator work?

It uses phantomJS as a browser, loads in a shim on top of the PhantomJS api, runs for a 10 seconds after all hooks have been innjected and data colelcted. After phantomjs run, the preoprocessors and validators/rules runs in a series to generate a report(info, warn, debug, error...).

Installation instructions

Install depedencies and package validator with package gardr(abit funky)

$ npm install && npm run build

Run tests

$ npm test

Starting the application

Run server:

$ PORT=8000 npm start

Local development:

( if editing gardr-validator, run ´npm link´ in gardr-validator folder, and then link gardr-validator inside gardr-validator-web with ´npm link gardr-validator´)

$ npm run start-dev

If you need to debug output from phantomjs, add env variable TMP_DIR=/TMP_DIR.
Screenshots and json output from phantom will be outputted in a folder with id as name.

Additional startup configuration

You can configure port, logfile location, etc using the config module or by specifying environment variables when starting.

$ HTTP_PORT=1337 LOG_FILE_NAME=~/mylogs/pvw npm start

Where to get help

Create a github issue.

Contributing

YES, pull requests with tests. Be sure to create a issue and let us know you are working on it - maybe we can help out with insights etc.

Alternatives

(please let us know of alternatives to this project)