moniteer v0.1.2

what

Puppeteer development made easier.
Save time when writing puppeteer code.

how

Instead of wasting time by repeatedly puppeteer.launching new browsers, moniteer lets you launch a browser once, and also lets you run a script of your choice with the browser endpoint as environment variable (so you can puppeter.connect to it) and an inspector so you can debug it.
Also, it can watch files and restart the script and/or the inspector if they change.

install and run

# pick one
yarn global add moniteer # (psst, this one's better)
npm i -g moniteer

Run a puppeteer browser in the background:

moniteer --browser &

Run a script and start an inspect (aka debug) session in watch mode:

moniteer --script index.js --inspect --watch "./**/.js"

Make sure this index.js file connects to the puppeteer browser like this:

let browser = puppeteer.connect(browserWSEndpoint: program.env.MONITEER_WS_ENDPOINT)

Then do whatever you want with that browser.

You can too separate the script process from the inspector process if you need that (eg: you need to read input from the script process):

moniteer --script index.js --watch index.js # in a terminal
moniteer --inspect --watch index.js # in another terminal

why

As you code using puppeteer, simple things like page loads become very repetitive and time consuming.
Sometimes you need to go through a lot of navigation to get to that one single element you're trying to tinker with.

With moniteer, the browser never closes and the pages persist. This means you can test that specific click you wrote, that for some reason isn't working, repeated times with almost zero waiting.

contributing

Feel free to.