IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.
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@julian just coming back here with an update.
Today, I noticed my NodeBB installation was playing up - to the point where hardly anything worked properly and sockets.io was having a breakdown. I restarted the VPS and everything was back to normal for about 10 minutes, and then all hell broke loose again.
After letting some monitoring run for an hour, I was able to quickly determine that the culprit was iFramely. Not the NodeBB plugin, but the self hosted instance I've been running for a while has suddenly decided it's going to occupy all the cores and drain the available memory from my system. There were also a stack of zombie processes associated with pm2 so I took the decision to try out the hosted API version which works.
Great, ok, now let's put everything back to self hosted and restart. This is where Armageddon took place with NodeBB refusing to build, and crashing each time I tried to open a post with links.
A quick disable plugin and a rebuild, and everything is back to normal.
My personal experiences here but I won't be putting iFramely back on my forum because of its detrimental impact on resources and the sudden runaway processes.
This means I'm in the market for a replacement. I'd prefer pretty URLs as this is a modem approach, but for now, I won't be using iframely for anything.
Any update at your end?
Thanks
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@phenomlab said in IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.:
Any update at your end?
Yes, my wife had a baby and so I'm getting less sleep than usual
But this is definitely on my radar as something to address...
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@julian said in IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.:
Yes, my wife had a baby and so I'm getting less sleep than usual
Congratulations! Hope your wife and new arrival are doing well.
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@julian said in IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.:
@phenomlab said in IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.:
Any update at your end?
Yes, my wife had a baby and so I'm getting less sleep than usual
But this is definitely on my radar as something to address...
congrats!
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@crazycells wait, that's not my baby...
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ha ha Congratulations @julian
@julian said in IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.:
Yes, my wife had a baby and so I'm getting less sleep than usual
It is sure that less and chopped sleep, it will last some time
@julian said in IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.:
But this is definitely on my radar as something to address...
This is a good thing because If iframely is so messed up on V3, it's a brake on the switch to V3 for me.
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@DownPW said in IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.:
This is a good thing because If iframely is so messed up on V3, it's a brake on the switch to V3 for me.
Yes, I have to admit it's been something of a bumpy ride for me and it either works well, or not at all. I don't think it's a NodeBB issue though.
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@DownPW said in IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.:
This is a good thing because If iframely is so messed up on V3, it's a brake on the switch to V3 for me.
Good to know. I hope it can be fixed soon.
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@crazycells said in IFramely alternatives, homebrewed solution, etc.:
Good to know. I hope it can be fixed soon.
I don't think it's going to be a fix - more of a departure from iFramely altogether with a home-brew solution
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@phenomlab well, it's a start, and there's a lot to do before I can actually publish, but the work is coming along
I did end up using
link-preview-js, so I stood up this proof-of-concept this afternoon. -
@julian it seems that the
link-previewpackage has been deprecated
js-link-preview
This package is no longer supported and has been deprecated. To avoid malicious use, npm is hanging on to the package name.. Latest version: 1.0.0, last published: 7 years ago. Start using js-link-preview in your project by running `npm i js-link-preview`. There are no other projects in the npm registry using js-link-preview.
npm (www.npmjs.com)
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@phenomlab ah, well, then it's a good thing I use
link-preview-js
Javascript module to extract and fetch HTTP link information from blocks of text.. Latest version: 3.0.12, last published: 2 months ago. Start using link-preview-js in your project by running `npm i link-preview-js`. There are 51 other projects in the npm registry using link-preview-js.
npm (www.npmjs.com)
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To take the heat off @julian in lieu of his new arrival to the Lam family
I decided to take a stab at this myself, and have a working solution herehttps://sudonix.org/topic/495/potential-replacement-for-iframely
It's NOT perfect, and NOT finished, but working for the most part. It's also not a plugin, but raw code.
Let me know if any interest.
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@phenomlab
so it seems like link-preview-js is also deprecated!Only recently (31 March 2023), though, so I think perhaps if it still working fine, then NodeBB could take it over.
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I do think using that library is still worth it. The server-side component I think it helpful because then we can leverage caching to reduce noise to queried servers.
I have been fiddling with my own plugin today and hope to have something to demo soon
It's a race!!
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@julian I'm using a
CORSproxy with caching for what I'm developing. Currently it's using content headers but tomorrow I will secure it with an API key.The drawback here is that the
CORSproxy needs to run as a daemon but is very efficient and gets around the cors restrictions nicely.
