Re:Show HN: Checkbot for Chrome – web crawler that tests for...
by seanwilson on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @03:23PM
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> Interesting. So the intent is to tackle problems before deployment. Do you plan on any devtools integrations so it can be used as part of an automatic CI/CD process?
A lot of the time, websites owners don't know there's a problem until their search results or Google Search Console updates. So I'm seeing it being used by developers to check localhost/development sites, then on staging for other problems, then on production when changes are made there. A command-line version to support CI/CD is something I'm really interested in as well.
> Also, does Checkbot dig into all dependancies or skip them like some others?
A lot of the time, websites owners don't know there's a problem until their search results or Google Search Console updates. So I'm seeing it being used by developers to check localhost/development sites, then on staging for other problems, then on production when changes are made there. A command-line version to support CI/CD is something I'm really interested in as well.
> Also, does Checkbot dig into all dependancies or skip them like some others?
Can you expand on what you mean here?