This is a two part application which in the first part a chrome extension scrapes a web page for page links and stores the data in a local MongoDB database and a Firebase instance. It illustrates the concepts in creating a chrome extension as a panel, passing events, coordinating data collection, posting data to a backend server and showing the parsed results in a tabular manner.
The second part which is a Node-Express application acts as an endpoint to the front end. It runs certain NPM modules to analyze the passed-in URL and sending back the results as a JSON object.
For local testing, please clone this repo and run
npm install
Once the packages are installed, use
gulp test
commands should run the tests.
Switch to the ../server directory and run the
npm install
command one more time to get the backend packages.