Meteor 1.4

[rschlack]

Should this package work for Meteor 1.4? If not, does anyone know how to get prerender working with 1.4? I'm getting 504 errors loading minified stylesheets.

[dfischer]

Sorry I haven't tested it with 1.4 and sadly not really keeping this up to date anymore. If you have a solution I'll happily accept a PR.

[s7dhansh]

Meteor 1.4 has made it super simple. Ideally, this should work:

server.js

Meteor.startup(() => {
    const prerenderio = require("prerender-node");
    const settings = Meteor.settings.PrerenderIO;

    if ((settings || {}).token) {
        prerenderio.set("prerenderToken", settings.token);
        if (settings.prerenderServiceUrl) prerenderio.set("prerenderServiceUrl", settings.prerenderServiceUrl);
      if (settings.protocol) prerenderio.set('protocol', settings.protocol);
      prerenderio.set('afterRender', function afterRender(error) {
        if (error) {
          console.log('prerenderio error', error); // eslint-disable-line no-console
          return;
        }
      });
        WebApp.rawConnectHandlers.use(prerenderio);
    }
});

client.html

    <meta name="fragment" content="!">

[s7dhansh]

Since I am using nginx in production, I am trying an nginx way,

upstream index {
  server 127.0.0.1:3051;
}

server {
  listen 80;
  server_name .....;

  location / {
    try_files $uri @prerender;
  }

  location @prerender {
    proxy_set_header X-Prerender-Token aXwmLUBOhz9RqiuKnWUy;

    set $prerender 0;
    if ($http_user_agent ~* "baiduspider|twitterbot|facebookexternalhit|rogerbot|linkedinbot|embedly|quora link preview|showyoubot|outbrain|pinterest|slackbot|vkShare|W3C_Validator") {
        set $prerender 1;
    }
    if ($args ~ "_escaped_fragment_") {
        set $prerender 1;
    }
    if ($http_user_agent ~ "Prerender") {
        set $prerender 0;
    }
    if ($uri ~* "\.(js|css|xml|less|png|jpg|jpeg|gif|pdf|doc|txt|ico|rss|zip|mp3|rar|exe|wmv|doc|avi|ppt|mpg|mpeg|tif|wav|mov|psd|ai|xls|mp4|m4a|swf|dat|dmg|iso|flv|m4v|torrent|ttf|woff|svg|eot)") {
        set $prerender 0;
    }

    #resolve using Google's DNS server to force DNS resolution and prevent caching of IPs
    resolver 8.8.8.8;

    if ($prerender = 1) {
        #setting prerender as a variable forces DNS resolution since nginx caches IPs and doesnt play well with load balancing
        set $prerender "service.prerender.io";
        rewrite .* /$scheme://$host$request_uri? break;
        proxy_pass http://$prerender;
    }
    if ($prerender = 0) {
      proxy_pass              http://index;
    }
    proxy_redirect          off;
    proxy_set_header        Upgrade $http_upgrade;
    proxy_set_header        Connection "upgrade";
  }
}

Source: https://gist.github.com/thoop/8165802

The only problem, I always get the loaders instead of a fully fetched web page. Still trying to find a solution.

[glasser]

Is anyone else seeing this issue? Can they show what the errors look like? This module does appear to work with Meteor 1.4.2.3 for me. That said, it looks like https://github.com/dferber90/meteor-prerender is more up to date!

[glasser]

By the way, it looks like https://github.com/dferber90/meteor-prerender has the same API as this package but uses a newer version of the NPM module which allows it to contain far less code. (Also, with Meteor 1.3+ it's easy to just use the NPM module directly instead of via Atmosphere.)

[dfischer]

Yeah I'm not really maintaining this. If anyone wants to do a PR i'm happy to merge or give collaborator access.