Get screenshots of all your running sites in different resolutions!

Updating large and possibly responsively designed sites can be a hassle. You never know whether your change breakes anything on the other end of your sitemap, or in a certain resolution, except if have a look at every individual page...in every resolution you care about.

The idea of review is not to test everything (and visual testing is hard) but rather use the human mind's excellent ability to quickly scan information and filter out what you need, i.e. what is broken.

If you want to review many sites at once, like microsoft and bootstrap instead of only multiple pages of the microsoft website, check out review-host.

$ npm install -g review

$ review --sites='{"google":"https://google.com","facebook":"https://facebook.com"}'
$ open https://localhost:4000/

$ # and check
$ review --usage
Host review
Usage: review [options]

Example: review --sites='{"localhost":"https://localhost:8080"}' --cookie='{"name":"SID","value":"s%3AOjB","domain":"localhost"}' --wait 5000 --resolutions='["1920x1280","1200x800"]'

Options:
  --port, -p         Port to listen on                                         [default: 4000]
  --title, -t        Title of the review                                       [default: "Review"]
  --sites, -s        Sites as JSON Object of strings                           [required]
  --resolutions, -r  Resolutions as JSON Array of strings                      [default: "[\"1200x800\"]"]
  --wait, -w         Time to give the page to finish loading, in milliseconds  [default: 0]
  --cache, -c        Cache snapshots for x seconds                             [default: false]
  --cut              Cut snapshots to exact screen size                        [default: false]
  --cookie           Cookie object, if your site needs it                      [default: null]
  --help, -h         Print usage instructions

or

var review = require('review')

review()
  .title('My Review')
  .sites({ google : 'https://google.com/' })
  .resolutions(['1280x1024', '1900x1600', '800x600'])
  .cache({
    dir : __dirname + '/cache/',
    expires : 60
  })
  .cookie({
    'name':     'connect.sid',   /* required property */
    'value':    's%3A4eZ6a00e1jot1EF6HhqqmBCC.RgLmbqI8BQblhHTuUSIfX3ejWexW1x7rGEGcVOgMY%2BU',  /* required property */
    'domain':   'localhost',           /* required property */
    'path':     '/',
    'httponly': true,
    'secure':   false
    })
  .listen(4000)

Returns an http / express request handler.

Display title in the review. Defaults to Review.

Either pass an object with titles as keys and urls as values, or a Function that fetches the sites to be displayed. This way, on every page load that list is refreshed and you can e.g. display all sites present in your sitemap.

review.sites(function (cb) {
  request('https://my.si/temap', function (err, res) {
    if (err) return cb(err)
    cb(null, format(res))
  })
})

See example/sites.js

Configure the resolutions to use for screenshots. Defaults to ["1200x800"]

PhantomJS will wait for x milliseconds after loading the page before it takes the screenshot, so you can make sure your page is completely loaded. Defaults to 0.

Cache rendered snapshots for expires seconds in dir.

If bool is true then screenshots will be cut to the exact dimensions that you specified. Without this pages can be longer than your specified height.

Configure the cookie that has to be passed, if your site needs it.

Start the review server on port port.

You need to have phantomjs 1.7 or above installed, get it via

$ brew install phantomjs

or check phantomjs.org

Then

$ npm install -g review # for cli
$ npm install review    # for library

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