pl0t vs prerender

pl0t

PL0T and See the Data | Charts, Tables, Text, Formulas (by al6x)

prerender

Node server that uses Headless Chrome to render a javascript-rendered page as HTML. To be used in conjunction with prerender middleware. (by prerender)

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pl0t		prerender
	Project
7	Mentions	14
26	Stars	6,368
-	Growth	0.3%
3.5	Activity	0.0
5 months ago	Latest Commit	about 2 months ago
HTML	Language	JavaScript
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	MIT License

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pl0t

Posts with mentions or reviews of pl0t. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-08-01.

Investor's First Rule, Optimal Betting | Simulations in Nim
1 project | /r/nim | 7 Sep 2021

The nim sources are self contained, you can fetch it and run the calculations and plots charts locally.
Australian House Price Stats
1 project | /r/AusFinance | 1 Sep 2021

The report is updated and opened, if you wish you can run it yourself, source
Data Notebook, Tables, Charts in Deno | PL0T
1 project | /r/Deno | 2 Aug 2021

Example Notebook, and the Deno Code that generates it. With types, schema validation and autocomplete.
Anyone tried Deno for something serious??
3 projects | /r/typescript | 1 Aug 2021

By the way I made some plotting library, like Python Notebooks, but for TypeScript and Deno :)
Data Notebook, Tables, Charts in Crystal | PL0T
1 project | /r/crystal_programming | 31 Jul 2021

The Crystal Library
Data Notebook in Nim | PL0T
1 project | /r/nim | 29 Jul 2021

Example Notebook Page and the Nim Code that generates it.
Printing tabular data
1 project | /r/nim | 20 Jul 2021

Simple Table | Table with Charts, Sorting and Filters | Nim API | More http://pl0t.com

prerender

Posts with mentions or reviews of prerender. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-11.

SEO without Server-Side Rendering
2 projects | /r/node | 11 Jul 2023
Is React Having An Angular.js Moment?
2 projects | /r/webdev | 26 Jun 2023

So then just to experiment, I set up https://github.com/prerender/prerender on my own VPS in like an hour... and done & dusted... no more effort needed to think about SSR issues anymore. Seems great, and I can't figure out why it's not more popular.
Reasons to not use nuxt?
4 projects | /r/vuejs | 1 Dec 2022

Spending like 1 hour setting up prerender on my server is much preferable to the ongoing issues that come with having to make all my code work with SSR frameworks. And there's the added bonus that my servers don't need to waste resources doing SSR for regular human users.
Finally managed to add social previews to my React app without SSR
1 project | /r/reactjs | 1 Nov 2022

Here’s an alternative that I use: https://prerender.io and GH is https://github.com/prerender/prerender
What is a HeadlessChrome user agent?
1 project | dev.to | 10 Sep 2022

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/92.0.4512.0 Safari/537.36 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) HeadlessChrome/91.0.4472.114 Safari/537.36 Prerender (+https://github.com/prerender/prerender) ...
Ask HN: Any Good Prerender.io Alternatives?
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Aug 2022
Is there some server site rendering Go library that would offer Nuxt like things?
2 projects | /r/golang | 9 May 2022
Shoelace: A Web Component Kit
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 3 Apr 2022

Ah, I didn't realize this wasn't solved -- a quick search turns up:
- https://github.com/WICG/webcomponents/issues/788
- https://github.com/w3c/DOM-Parsing/issues/58
- https://github.com/w3ctag/design-reviews/issues/494
- https://web.dev/declarative-shadow-dom
In pre-render they seem to have started in this direction extremely recently:
https://github.com/prerender/prerender/pull/731/files
I don't use prerender so I can't definitively speak to it being solved and hiccup-free, but I think that limitation is going to go away in the future.
Which are some of the fundamentals of Web dev every developer should know regardless of experience?
2 projects | /r/learnprogramming | 1 Mar 2022

Using something like: https://github.com/prerender/prerender
Recently released a SSR Proxy (Server-Side Rendenring), which allows for SEO-friendly SPAs, serving pre-rendered web pages for Web Crawlers. Any feedback is more than welcome!
2 projects | /r/webdev | 12 Dec 2021

Have you used prerender - https://github.com/prerender/prerender ? Seems to be doing the same thing.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing pl0t and prerender you can also consider the following projects:

rendertron - A Headless Chrome rendering solution

nextron - ⚡ Next.js + Electron ⚡

ui5-webcomponents - UI5 Web Components - the enterprise-flavored sugar on top of native APIs! Build SAP Fiori user interfaces with the technology of your choice.

nextjs-monorepo-example - Collection of monorepo tips & tricks

ssr-proxy-js - A Server-Side Rendering Proxy focused on customization and flexibility!

database-viewer

electron-react-boilerplate - A Foundation for Scalable Cross-Platform Apps

bartender - A service to make web crawlers consume webpages easier

declarative-shadow-dom - Declarative Shadow DOM feature development

design-reviews - W3C specs and API reviews

kyoto - Golang SSR-first Frontend Library