A command-line tool to industrialize web quality measurement.

Description

Heart is a tool that centralize the use of famous web quality measurement services (Google Lighthouse, GreenIT Analysis or Mozilla Observatory) in a unique CLI.

With his modular approach, it makes easy to process the analysis results into a database to track metrics over time, or send them into a communication tool like Slack.

Moreover the command-line interface allows a smooth integration into a CI/CD chain.

Example of use

Exemple scenario:

• analyze https://heart.fabernovel.com/ using the Google Lighthouse service.
• receive the main metrics and advices on a heart Slack channel when the analysis is over.
• store the results in a MySQL database.

Manual, with NPM packages

1. Install the packages

   npm install @fabernovel/heart-lighthouse @fabernovel/heart-slack @fabernovel/heart-mysql

2. Set the credentials for Slack (API key) and MySQL (database URL)

   echo HEART_SLACK_API_TOKEN=xoxb-rest-of-token >> .env
   echo HEART_MYSQL_DATABASE_URL=login:password@127.0.0.1:3306 >> .env

3. Create a Slack channel named heart and a database with the same name.

4. Start the analysis

   npx heart lighthouse --config '{"url":"https://heart.fabernovel.com/"}'

Once the analysis is over, you will receive a Slack notification to quickly identify what can be improved:

And the results will be stored in a report table, which you can exploit with tools like Grafana:

For more options, have a look at the help by using npx heart -h

Packaged, with the Docker image

Heart is also available as a Docker image.

With the example scenario given previously, the Docker image is used as follow:

docker run --rm\
    --env HEART_SLACK_API_TOKEN=xoxb-rest-of-token\
    --env HEART_MYSQL_DATABASE_URL=login:password@127.0.0.1:3306\
    fabernovel/heart:latest\
    lighthouse --config '{"url":"https://heart.fabernovel.com"}' --only-listeners=mysql,slack

Automated, with the GitHub Action

If you're using GitHub, you can simplify the integration of Heart in your CI scripts by using the GitHub Action.

With the example scenario given previously, the GitHub Action is used as follow:

- uses: faberNovel/heart-action@v4
  with:
    analysis_service: lighthouse
    listener_services_only: mysql,slack
    mysql_database_url: ${{ secrets.MYSQL_DATABASE_URL }}
    slack_api_token: ${{ secrets.SLACK_API_TOKEN }}

Design

Heart has been designed to be as light as possible, which explains its modular approach: you only install what you need.

To do so, Heart is divided in 3 types of modules.

Modules types

Type	Mission	Example
Runner	Starts an analysis	using the CLI or the HTTP API
Analysis	Analyzes URLs using third-party services	using GreenIT Analysis
Listener	Do thing with the results of the analysis	send them into a Slack channel

The minimum setup you need to run Heart, is to have the Heart CLI runner module and a single analysis module.

Modules list

Name	Type	Purpose
Heart API	Runner	Exposes an HTTP API that starts an analysis when it is requested
Heart CLI	Runner	Control the other modules by using a CLI
Heart GreenIT	Analysis	Analyzes URLs with GreenIT Analysis
Heart Lighthouse	Analysis	Analyzes URLs with Google Lighthouse
Heart Observatory	Analysis	Analyzes URLs with Mozilla Observatory
Heart SSL Labs Server	Analysis	Analyzes URLs with Qualys SSL Labs Server
Heart MySQL	Listener	Stores the results of the analysis into a MySQL database
Heart Slack	Listener	Sends the results of the analysis to a Slack channel