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Investigate alternatives for Puppeteer usage

Open whimboo opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Follow-up from the discussion on #146.

It would be good to know for what exactly Puppeteer is needed and if it could be replaced with something else that doesn't have a strict requirement for a given browser.

@sidvishnoi maybe you could please explain? I'm happy to help on this issue.

whimboo avatar Oct 06 '22 13:10 whimboo

@whimboo what's the use case? We could use puppeteer with WebDriver BiDi + Firefox if you need basic JS evaluation to a basic type.

OrKoN avatar Oct 06 '22 13:10 OrKoN

Puppeteer is used in following cases presently:

  1. Getting processed shortname from ReSpec document (after JS evaluation): https://github.com/w3c/spec-prod/blob/bc93d69901e2c76b0e5147c12263acf6099506d3/src/prepare-build.ts#L188-L193
  2. Extracting bikeshed metadata pre.metadata to get shortname: https://github.com/w3c/spec-prod/blob/bc93d69901e2c76b0e5147c12263acf6099506d3/src/prepare-build.ts#L218-L237
  3. Some query selector processing to extract metadata from published pages: https://github.com/w3c/spec-prod/blob/bc93d69901e2c76b0e5147c12263acf6099506d3/src/prepare-build.ts#L263-L266
  4. Full page content parsing, JS/CSS evaluation with subresources to extract all directly and indirectly referenced assets from a page that need to be copied for deployment: https://github.com/w3c/spec-prod/blob/bc93d69901e2c76b0e5147c12263acf6099506d3/src/build.ts#L169

sidvishnoi avatar Oct 06 '22 13:10 sidvishnoi