corerender is a serve.zone prerendering service that fetches requested URLs, passes HTML pages through @push.rocks/smartssr, caches rendered output in Smartdata, and serves non-HTML assets through unchanged.

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What It Does

corerender is a small service wrapper around a prerender pipeline. It is useful when crawlers, link previews, or static cache warmers need HTML after web components have rendered, while regular assets should be streamed from origin without SSR overhead.

Runtime flow:

GET /render/https://example.com/page?x=1
  -> fetch origin URL
  -> if content-type is HTML, render through SmartSSR
  -> cache PrerenderResult in Smartdata
  -> return rendered HTML with origin status and headers

Highlights

🧩 SmartSSR-based rendering for web-component applications
🗃️ Smartdata-backed PrerenderResult cache
🕒 cached render reuse for fresh results and automatic stale-result refresh
🗺️ sitemap and robots.txt aware prerender helpers
🧹 scheduled cleanup for old prerender results
🖥️ UtilityServiceServer with a /render/* route
🧰 exported Rendertron, runCli(), and stop() entry points

Install

In this workspace, install dependencies with pnpm and run the package scripts from the repo root.

pnpm install

For internal registry consumption:

pnpm add corerender

Quick Start

import { Rendertron } from 'corerender';

const rendertron = new Rendertron();

await rendertron.start();

process.once('SIGTERM', async () => {
  await rendertron.stop();
  process.exit(0);
});

The package-level CLI runner does the same bootstrapping:

import { runCli, stop } from 'corerender';

await runCli();
await stop();

Service Route

The service registers one custom route on its UtilityServiceServer:

GET /render/*

The remainder of the path is interpreted as the origin URL. Query strings are preserved.

Examples:

/render/https://example.com/
/render/https://example.com/products?id=123

Behavior:

origin fetch errors return 502
malformed relative protocol artifacts such as https://url(...) return 500
HTML origin responses are rendered with SmartSSR and cached
non-HTML origin responses are returned directly as binary data

Cache and Prerendering

PrerenderManager coordinates SmartSSR, Smartrobots, and SmartSitemap.

The current cache behavior in PrerenderResult is:

render results younger than 12 hours are reused
older render results are marked for rerendering
cleanup deletes results older than 24 hours

Sitemap helpers are available through the service instance after startup:

await rendertron.prerenderManager.prerenderDomain('example.com');
await rendertron.prerenderManager.prerenderSitemap('https://example.com/sitemap.xml');

The scheduled prerenderLocalDomains task currently has the domain source stubbed out in this repo. The cleanup task is scheduled daily.

Operational Notes

Concern	Current implementation
Persistence	`rendertron.db.ts` initializes a Smartdata MongoDB connection for `PrerenderResult` documents.
HTTP server	`Rendertron.start()` creates a `UtilityServiceServer` named `rendertron`.
Rendering	`PrerenderManager` creates `SmartSSR`, `Smartrobots`, and `SmartSitemap` instances.
Task scheduling	`TaskManager` starts scheduled prerender and cleanup tasks through `@push.rocks/taskbuffer`.
Shutdown	`Rendertron.stop()` stops the server, prerender manager, task manager, and database connection.

API Surface

Export	Purpose
`Rendertron`	Main service class with `start()` and `stop()`.
`runCli()`	Starts a singleton `Rendertron` instance.
`stop()`	Stops the singleton instance started by `runCli()`.

Important public instance properties after startup:

Property	Purpose
`serviceServerInstance`	Underlying UtilityServiceServer.
`prerenderManager`	Rendering, robots.txt, sitemap, and cache helper manager.
`taskManager`	Scheduled prerender/cleanup task manager.

Development

pnpm run build
pnpm test
pnpm start

Useful source entry points:

ts/index.ts exports Rendertron, runCli(), and stop().
ts/rendertron.classes.rendertron.ts owns service startup and /render/* routing.
ts/rendertron.classes.prerendermanager.ts owns SmartSSR, robots.txt, and sitemap rendering helpers.
ts/rendertron.classes.prerenderresult.ts owns cached render document behavior.
ts/rendertron.taskmanager.ts owns scheduled prerender and cleanup tasks.

License and Legal Information

This repository contains open-source code licensed under the MIT License. A copy of the license can be found in the license file.

Please note: The MIT License does not grant permission to use the trade names, trademarks, service marks, or product names of the project, except as required for reasonable and customary use in describing the origin of the work and reproducing the content of the NOTICE file.

Trademarks

This project is owned and maintained by Task Venture Capital GmbH. The names and logos associated with Task Venture Capital GmbH and any related products or services are trademarks of Task Venture Capital GmbH or third parties, and are not included within the scope of the MIT license granted herein.

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