Access DOM of external .HTML from NodeJS?

Question

New to NodeJS and JavaScript in general; how do I do basic file I/O?

read_and_edit_me.html

<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
    <head></head>
    <body>
        <a href="//foo">bar</a>
    </body>
</html>

rw_dom.js

// Here is how I would do it if this was in <head></head>
document.open();
document.write('<a href="/bar">Out with the old -');
document.write('<a href="/new_bar">in</a> with the new!</a>');

var all_href = [], l = document.links;
document.close();

for (var i = 0; i < l.length; i++) {
    all_href.push(l[i].href);
}

// `all_href` should contain: ["http://{host}/bar", "http://{host}/new_bar"]

Answer 1

So you want to manipulate DOM serverside before sending it to the client? If so, take a look at this (using "jsdom"): http://marksoper.me/Server-side-DOM-manipulation-in-Nodejs-with-JSDOM-JQuery-and-Mustache-Templates-April-25-2011.html

Answer 2

@MattiasHognas didn't accept my edit, so going off his link this is what I am thinking was meant:

require.paths.unshift('/usr/local/lib/node_modules');
var fs    = require('fs'),
    jsdom = require('jsdom');

var read_and_edit_me = fs.readFileSync('read_and_edit_me.html','utf-8');
var document         = jsdom.jsdom(read_and_edit_me);

Then document should be able to used as in my question's snippet?

Access DOM of external .HTML from NodeJS?

Question

read_and_edit_me.html

rw_dom.js

2 answers

solution1
1 2013-07-24 18:25:41

solution2
0 2013-07-24 18:36:37

Access DOM of external .HTML from NodeJS?

Question

read_and_edit_me.html

rw_dom.js

2 answers

solution1 1 2013-07-24 18:25:41

solution2 0 2013-07-24 18:36:37

solution1
1 2013-07-24 18:25:41

solution2
0 2013-07-24 18:36:37