rrweb-snapshot
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Package description
The rrweb-snapshot npm package is a part of the rrweb suite, which is used for recording and replaying user interactions on web pages. The rrweb-snapshot package specifically focuses on taking snapshots of the DOM and serializing it into a format that can be used for replaying the recorded interactions.
Snapshot the DOM
This feature allows you to take a snapshot of the current state of the DOM. The `snapshot` function serializes the DOM into a JSON format that can be used for replaying the recorded interactions.
const { snapshot } = require('rrweb-snapshot');
const domSnapshot = snapshot(document);
console.log(domSnapshot);Rebuild the DOM
This feature allows you to rebuild the DOM from a previously captured snapshot. The `rebuild` function takes the serialized DOM snapshot and reconstructs it in a specified container.
const { rebuild } = require('rrweb-snapshot');
const domSnapshot = /* previously captured snapshot */;
const container = document.createElement('div');
rebuild(domSnapshot, { doc: document, afterAppend: (n) => container.appendChild(n) });
document.body.appendChild(container);Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol. It can be used for taking screenshots, generating PDFs, and capturing the DOM state. Unlike rrweb-snapshot, Puppeteer is more focused on browser automation and testing rather than recording and replaying user interactions.
html2canvas is a JavaScript library that allows you to take 'screenshots' of webpages or parts of it, directly in the browser. It renders the webpage as a canvas image. While it can capture the visual state of the DOM, it does not serialize the DOM structure like rrweb-snapshot.
dom-to-image is a library that generates an image from a DOM node. It is similar to html2canvas but offers more customization options. However, it focuses on capturing the visual representation of the DOM rather than its structure and state, which is the primary focus of rrweb-snapshot.
Readme
Snapshot the DOM into a stateful and serializable data structure. Also, provide the ability to rebuild the DOM via snapshot.
This module export following methods:
snapshot will traverse the DOM and return a stateful and serializable data structure which can represent the current DOM view.
There are several things will be done during snapshot:
noscript tags to avoid scripts being executed.rebuild will build the DOM according to the taken snapshot.
There are several things will be done during rebuild:
serializeNodeWithId can serialize a node into snapshot format with id.
buildNodeWithSN will build DOM from serialized node and store serialized information in __sn property.
FAQs
rrweb's component to take a snapshot of DOM, aka DOM serializer
The npm package rrweb-snapshot receives a total of 269,085 weekly downloads. As such, rrweb-snapshot popularity was classified as popular.
We found that rrweb-snapshot demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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