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Prerendering a Vite + React SPA with Playwright so crawlers and AI agents see real HTML
PDF Perfect is a plain Vite + React single-page app. Every PDF tool runs in the browser, so there's no server-side logic at all, and I wanted to keep it that way. That created an SEO problem: every UR
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Jonas
Sharing various dev's thoughts.
I’d extend check-meta to check the body too: the expected H1, a route-specific paragraph and the main links. The JSON-LD element can appear before async content has finished loading, so it’s possible to save a snapshot with a complete head and a loading state in the body.
If the page has async content, I’d wait for a signal from that content before saving it, then check the deployed URL as well as the file in dist.
I’m building Prerender Buddy, so this is close to what I work on. The check that matters here is what the URL actually returns.