Hi all,
I just wanted to share a project we've been working on at Say Media to
provide a relatively-lightweight (relative to running PhantomJS, etc)
mechanism to run our application on the server, with the goal of providing
statically-rendered pages to robots, but also allowing us to re-use our
AngularJS modules when generating RSS feeds and XML sitemaps.
The project is here:
https://github.com/saymedia/angularjs-server
The methodology is to provide replacement implementations for a number of
core AngularJS services, adapting these interfaces to work in a
NodeJS/Express server and providing these replacements via dependency
injection. For example, $http is replaced with an implementation that uses
node's http library, and $route is extended with additional functionality
to allow routes to be resolved on the server side.
This solution is definitely not a magic bullet -- some of the limitations
are spelled out in the README -- but if you're willing to stick to some
slightly more restrictive development practices than you'd use targeting
only the browser (e.g. primarily using the AngularJS API and not directly
using browser APIs) then we've found this a compelling way to run our
AngularJS application on our servers with less overhead and more
flexibility than our previous PhantomJS-based rendering solution.
We're using this library in production as part of the server that powers
many of Say Media's content sites like ReadWrite <http://readwrite.com/>,
though we expect the design to evolve a little before it's
finalized/stable. If others are interested in giving it a try I'd love to
hear about your experiences and ideas you have about how it could be
improved to be more generally-useful.
Thanks!
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