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puppeteer-pending-requests

Introduction

Provides utility to wait for network to be idle for passed time.

This utility basically checks for zero pending requests and there is no new request for passed time.

Install

npm install @agabhane/puppeteer-pending-requests

Usage

Import @agabhane/puppeteer-pending-requests in your code

const { PuppeteerPendingRequests } = require('@agabhane/puppeteer-pending-requests');

Create an instance by passing Puppeteer page

let puppeteerPendingRequests = new PuppeteerPendingRequests(page);

Use waitForNetworkIdle() function to wait for network to be idle for passed time.

await waitForNetworkIdle(500);

waitForNetworkIdle(500) function returns promise which gets resolved when network was idle for passed time (in this example 500 ms)

To avoid race condition, please use below syntax.

await Promise.all([       
    puppeteerPendingRequests.waitForNetworkIdle(500),
    await this.someElement.click()
]);

Example

Example 1

Lets say there are two xhr requests happen when we click on a button, 1st request happens as soon as we click on button and 2nd request happens after 200 milliseconds after receiving 1st requests response.

1req------|
           ----200ms----|
                        2req--------|
                                     ----250ms (network idle)-----

We want our function to wait for both requests to finish.

We will call our function with time more than 200 (lets say 250) so that we will wait for both requests to finish

await Promise.all([       
    puppeteerPendingRequests.waitForNetworkIdle(250),
    await this.button.click()
]);

Example 2

Lets say there are three xhr requests happen simultaneously when we click on a button.

1req------|
2req---------------|
3req---|
                    ------100 ms (network idle) -----

We want our function to wait for all requests to finish.

We will call our function with time more than 0 (lets say 100 default). Since we all requests happening at the same time, time does not matter. Function will wait untill all requests finish.

await Promise.all([       
    puppeteerPendingRequests.waitForNetworkIdle(100),
    await this.button.click()
]);

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