moved to using worker threads, can now handle more requests because of this. Also laid foundation for passing parameters

.gitignore

@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+### Personal rmcg
+screenshot.png
+
 # ---> Node
 # Logs
 logs

README.md

@@ -1,3 +1,19 @@
 # motivational-picture-generator
 
-A project to learn NodeJS, ExpressJS, and whatever else along the way.
+A project to learn NodeJS, ExpressJS, and whatever else along the way.
+
+**THIS IS ALL WORK IN PROGRESS AND SUBJECT TO CHANGE**
+
+To start server
+
+```bash
+npm run dev
+```
+
+Make url request to `localhost:4000/submit/{}`
+
+Testing with
+
+```bash
+ab -c 5 -t 15 http://localhost:4000/submit/\{\}
+```

generate-image-of-page.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+import puppeteer from "puppeteer";
+import { scrollPageToBottom } from "puppeteer-autoscroll-down";
+import express from "express";
+import "dotenv/config";
+
+const folderToServe = "/Users/tarasis/Programming/websites/rmcg.dev/www/";
+
+const port = process.env.PORT || 4000;
+
+const app = express();
+
+app.use(express.static(folderToServe));
+app.get("/screenshot", async (req, res) => {
+    const dynamicPage = express();
+    dynamicPage.use(express.static(folderToServe));
+
+    const dynamicServer = dynamicPage.listen(0, async () => {
+        const dynamicPort = dynamicServer.address().port;
+        console.log(
+            `Dynamic server is running at http://localhost:${dynamicPort}`
+        );
+
+        const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
+        const page = await browser.newPage();
+        await page.goto(`http://localhost:${dynamicPort}`);
+
+        await page.waitForResponse((response) => response.status() === 200);
+
+        await scrollPageToBottom(page);
+
+        const screenshotBuffer = await page.screenshot({ fullPage: true });
+
+        // Respond with the image
+        res.writeHead(200, {
+            "Content-Type": "image/png",
+            "Content-Length": screenshotBuffer.length,
+        });
+        res.end(screenshotBuffer);
+        // other option is just to save the file to disk
+        // await page.screenshot({ path: 'example.png' });
+        // Close the browser
+
+        await browser.close();
+        console.log(`Closing dynamic server http://localhost:${dynamicPort}`);
+
+        await dynamicServer.close();
+    });
+});
+
+app.listen(port, () => {
+    console.log(`Server is running at http://localhost:${port}`);
+});

image-generator.cjs

@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+const puppeteer = require("puppeteer");
+const { scrollPageToBottom } = require("puppeteer-autoscroll-down");
+const express = require("express");
+
+const { parentPort, workerData } = require("worker_threads");
+
+const folderToServe =
+    "/Users/tarasis/Programming/websites/rmcg.dev/www/FrontendMentor/newbie/social-links-profile/";
+
+const dynamicPage = express();
+dynamicPage.use(express.static(folderToServe));
+
+const dynamicServer = dynamicPage.listen(0, async () => {
+    const dynamicPort = dynamicServer.address().port;
+    console.log(`Dynamic server is running at http://localhost:${dynamicPort}`);
+
+    const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
+    const page = await browser.newPage();
+    await page.goto(`http://localhost:${dynamicPort}`);
+
+    await page.waitForResponse((response) => response.status() === 200);
+
+    await scrollPageToBottom(page);
+
+    const screenshotBuffer = await page.screenshot({ fullPage: true });
+
+    // other option is just to save the file to disk
+    // await page.screenshot({ path: 'example.png' });
+    // Close the browser
+
+    await browser.close();
+    console.log(`Closing dynamic server http://localhost:${dynamicPort}`);
+
+    await dynamicServer.close();
+
+    parentPort.postMessage({
+        type: "image",
+        data: screenshotBuffer,
+        port: dynamicPort,
+    });
+});

index.mjs

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+import express from "express";
+import "dotenv/config";
+
+import { Worker, isMainThread, parentPort, workerData } from "worker_threads";
+
+import fs from "fs";
+
+const port = process.env.PORT || 4000;
+
+const app = express();
+
+app.use(express.static("www"));
+
+app.get("/submit/:mpgParams", (req, res) => {
+    // console.log("🚀 ~ app.get ~ req:", req);
+    // Get any supplied parameters, this keeps it clean
+    // if I pass more parameters in the future
+    const mpgParams = req.query.mpgParams;
+    console.log("🚀 ~ app.get ~ mpgParams:", mpgParams);
+
+    const worker = new Worker("./image-generator.cjs", {
+        workerData: {
+            mpgParams,
+        },
+    });
+
+    // nicer would be to return a link the user
+    // can click to download the image
+    // or better yet dynamically load it into the original page in an iframe or ssg thing
+    // but that might require moving project
+    // to a framework like react/astro
+    worker.on("message", (message) => {
+        if (message.type === "image") {
+            res.writeHead(200, {
+                "Content-Type": "image/png",
+                "Content-Length": message.data.length,
+            });
+            res.end(message.data);
+
+            // save the image - temporary for now
+            // fs.writeFileSync(
+            //     `received_image-${message.port}.png`,
+            //     message.data
+            // );
+        }
+    });
+
+    worker.on("error", (err) => {
+        // Handle errors from the worker
+        console.error(err);
+        res.status(500).send("Internal Server Error");
+    });
+
+    worker.on("exit", (code) => {
+        if (code !== 0) {
+            // Handle non-zero exit codes
+            console.error(new Error(`Worker stopped with exit code ${code}`));
+        }
+    });
+});
+
+app.listen(port, () => {
+    console.log(`Server is running at http://localhost:${port}`);
+});

package-lock.json

@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
         "dotenv": "^16.4.5",
         "express": "^4.18.3",
         "puppeteer": "^22.4.0",
-        "puppeteer-autoscroll-down": "^2.0.0"
+        "puppeteer-autoscroll-down": "^1.1.2"
       }
     },
     "node_modules/@babel/code-frame": {
@@ -1498,11 +1498,11 @@
       }
     },
     "node_modules/puppeteer-autoscroll-down": {
-      "version": "2.0.0",
+      "version": "1.1.2",
-      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/puppeteer-autoscroll-down/-/puppeteer-autoscroll-down-2.0.0.tgz",
+      "resolved": "https://registry.npmjs.org/puppeteer-autoscroll-down/-/puppeteer-autoscroll-down-1.1.2.tgz",
-      "integrity": "sha512-Bo5ADSo1t5u36IxY4x/EgS6kNQqMXfTNRSh5CSR5bpoTTOpzE+HE0LZ5xIlqzAfpRjaPtsOd+2lRQiPeAKQlHA==",
+      "integrity": "sha512-SSzxBf6Iu2zn6NNqZO1XlU8cqbjVOzhlTh38xLU42srNZjrDXkIAhKandScM0ZwueVOtOs4xSY0FN2S6whlFSA==",
       "engines": {
-        "node": ">=18"
+        "node": ">=12"
       }
     },
     "node_modules/puppeteer-core": {

package.json

@@ -4,16 +4,17 @@
   "description": "A project to learn NodeJS, ExpressJS, and whatever else along the way.",
   "main": "index.mjs",
   "scripts": {
+    "dev": "nodemon index.mjs",
     "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
   },
   "keywords": [],
   "author": "",
   "license": "ISC",
-  "type": "Modules",
+  "type": "module",
   "dependencies": {
     "dotenv": "^16.4.5",
     "express": "^4.18.3",
     "puppeteer": "^22.4.0",
-    "puppeteer-autoscroll-down": "^2.0.0"
+    "puppeteer-autoscroll-down": "^1.1.2"
   }
 }

www/index.html

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+<!DOCTYPE html>
+<html lang="en">
+
+<head>
+    <meta charset="UTF-8">
+    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
+    <title>Movitvational Picture Generator</title>
+</head>
+
+<body>
+    <h1>Hello World</h1>
+</body>
+
+</html>