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Lighthouse plugin recipe

Contents

  • package.json - declares the plugin's entry point (plugin.js)
  • plugin.js - instructs Lighthouse to run the plugin's own preload-as.js audit; describes the new category and its details for the report
  • audits/preload-as.js - the new audit to run in addition to Lighthouse's default audits

To develop as a plugin developer

Run the following to start of with the recipe as a template:

mkdir lighthouse-plugin-example && cd lighthouse-plugin-example
curl -L https://github.com/GoogleChrome/lighthouse/archive/main.zip | tar -xzv
mv lighthouse-main/docs/recipes/lighthouse-plugin-example/* ./
rm -rf lighthouse-main

Install and run just your plugin:

yarn
NODE_PATH=.. yarn lighthouse https://example.com --plugins=lighthouse-plugin-example --only-categories=lighthouse-plugin-example --view

When you rename the plugin, be sure to rename its directory as well.

Iterating

To speed up development, you can gather once and iterate by auditing repeatedly.

# Gather artifacts from the browser
NODE_PATH=.. yarn lighthouse https://example.com --plugins=lighthouse-plugin-example --only-categories=lighthouse-plugin-example --gather-mode

# and then iterate re-running this:
NODE_PATH=.. yarn lighthouse https://example.com --plugins=lighthouse-plugin-example --only-categories=lighthouse-plugin-example --audit-mode --view

Finally, publish to NPM.

To run as a plugin user

  1. Install lighthouse (v5+) and the plugin lighthouse-plugin-example, likely as devDependencies.
    • npm install -D lighthouse lighthouse-plugin-example
  2. To run your private lighthouse binary, you have three options
    1. npx --no-install lighthouse https://example.com --plugins=lighthouse-plugin-example --view
    2. yarn lighthouse https://example.com --plugins=lighthouse-plugin-example --view
    3. Add an npm script calling lighthouse and run that.

Result

Screenshot of report with plugin results