This tool allows you to proxy an external site and overwrite external sources with local versions.
Usecases:
- Running experiments against a external applications.
- For creating layered abtests (an ABtest that can be added as a layer on top of an existing system).
- Serves your code as if it was part of the system, without the need of running the entire system locally.
- Debugging and troubleshooting in production: Allows you to test your local (javascript) build against production.
- Great for demonstrations and proof of concepts.
ablayer --url https://some-site.com [--port 9900] [--cors]
npm install -g ablayer
- Tested with node 8, npm 5, on linux and MacOS.
- Check out the Hackernews example to see how ablayer can be used to try out a custom theme and add new/seen/read comments feature to Hackernews
- Proxy against http and https servers.
- Serves files from the current directory
- abtest.js will be automatically injected in each html file that is served via ablayer.
- for each requested file ablayer will check if it exists locally, otherwise it will proxy the request to the external server.
- Will rewrite links so you stay on localhost.
- Cookies are handled appropriately, so you can login via your localhost on the external system.
- Redirects will be rewritten, so you stay on localhost.
You may use github issues for bugs, feedback, feature requests here