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-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/webapp.py33
-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_asset_versioning.py5
-rw-r--r--packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_site_basics.py33
3 files changed, 67 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/webapp.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/webapp.py
index c9cb8d5..1d3bc7e 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/webapp.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/src/meshbay_hub/api/webapp.py
@@ -164,11 +164,20 @@ async def index():
# square icon, which is the shape a thumbnail is cut to anyway.
PREVIEW_DESCRIPTION = "Your files stay at home. Reach them from anywhere."
+# What a search engine shows under the link: two lines, about 150 characters,
+# so it can say what the preview has no room for. welcome.lead, shortened.
+SEARCH_TITLE = "MeshBay — private, encrypted sharing from your own computer"
+SEARCH_DESCRIPTION = ("Your photos, music, videos and conversations stay on your "
+ "own computer. MeshBay lets you reach them from anywhere "
+ "and share them with the people you choose.")
+
def _preview_tags(hub_id: str) -> str:
origin = html.escape(f"https://{hub_id}", quote=True)
return f"""\
- <meta name="description" content="{PREVIEW_DESCRIPTION}">
+ <meta name="description" content="{SEARCH_DESCRIPTION}">
+ <!-- "/" and every /app/* path serve this same shell: one URL for all. -->
+ <link rel="canonical" href="{origin}/">
<meta property="og:type" content="website">
<meta property="og:site_name" content="MeshBay">
<meta property="og:title" content="MeshBay">
@@ -203,13 +212,31 @@ _HTML = """\
Ignored by browsers that do not know it. -->
<meta name="viewport"
content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, interactive-widget=resizes-content">
- <title>MeshBay</title>
+ <title>{title}</title>
{preview} <link rel="icon" href="/a/{v}/favicon.ico" sizes="16x16 32x32 48x48">
<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="/a/{v}/apple-touch-icon.png">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/a/{v}/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div id="app"></div>
+ <!-- The only text in this page before app.js runs: what a crawler that does
+ not execute scripts reads and follows, and what a browser with scripts
+ off shows instead of a blank page. The links are the welcome page's
+ (auth-page.js), pointing at the project's site like it does. -->
+ <noscript>
+ <h1>MeshBay</h1>
+ <p>Your photos, music, videos and conversations stay at home, on your own
+ computer. MeshBay lets you enjoy them from anywhere, and share them with
+ the people you choose.</p>
+ <p>Signing in needs JavaScript, which is turned off in this browser.</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="https://meshbay.org/downloads/">Download (beta)</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://git.meshbay.org/meshbay.git/about/docs/QUICKSTART.md">Quick start</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://git.meshbay.org/meshbay.git/about/docs/USERGUIDE.md">User guide</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://git.meshbay.org/meshbay.git/about/">Source code</a></li>
+ <li><a href="https://meshbay.org/legal/">Legal information</a></li>
+ </ul>
+ </noscript>
<!-- Everything below is loaded from a path that carries the fingerprint of
what we are serving, so a browser holding a heuristically-cached copy of
an older build fetches this one instead of deciding it need not ask —
@@ -239,6 +266,6 @@ _HTML = """\
<script type="module" src="/a/{v}/app.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
-""".replace("{v}", ASSET_V)
+""".replace("{v}", ASSET_V).replace("{title}", html.escape(SEARCH_TITLE))
_shell = _HTML.replace("{preview}", _preview_tags("meshbay.org"))
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_asset_versioning.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_asset_versioning.py
index 7057311..2d90a51 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_asset_versioning.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_asset_versioning.py
@@ -32,7 +32,10 @@ def client():
def _shell_refs(html: str) -> list[str]:
- return re.findall(r'(?:src|href)="([^"]+)"', html)
+ """What the shell loads: script sources and <link> files. Not the canonical
+ link nor the <noscript> anchors, which name pages rather than fetch them."""
+ return (re.findall(r'src="([^"]+)"', html)
+ + re.findall(r'<link rel="(?!canonical")[^"]+" href="([^"]+)"', html))
def test_every_asset_the_shell_loads_is_versioned(client):
diff --git a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_site_basics.py b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_site_basics.py
index 5c19aa6..40508a1 100644
--- a/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_site_basics.py
+++ b/packages/meshbay-hub/tests/test_site_basics.py
@@ -93,3 +93,36 @@ def test_the_preview_description_fits_in_a_preview():
nothing."""
from meshbay_hub.api.webapp import PREVIEW_DESCRIPTION
assert len(PREVIEW_DESCRIPTION) <= 60
+
+
+def test_search_engines_get_a_title_and_description_that_say_what_it_is(client):
+ """The preview description is cut for messengers; a search result has
+ room for two lines, and a bare "MeshBay" title matches no search."""
+ from meshbay_hub.api.webapp import SEARCH_DESCRIPTION, SEARCH_TITLE
+ html = client.get("/").text
+ assert f"<title>{SEARCH_TITLE}</title>" in html
+ assert 50 <= len(SEARCH_TITLE) <= 60
+ assert re.search(r'<meta name="description" content="([^"]*)">', html).group(1) == SEARCH_DESCRIPTION
+ assert 110 <= len(SEARCH_DESCRIPTION) <= 160
+
+
+def test_every_path_to_the_shell_names_the_root_as_canonical():
+ from meshbay_hub.config import load_config
+ cfg = load_config()
+ cfg.identity.id = "hub.example.org"
+ client = TestClient(create_app(cfg))
+ for path in ("/", "/app", "/app/groups"):
+ html = client.get(path).text
+ assert '<link rel="canonical" href="https://hub.example.org/">' in html, path
+
+
+def test_the_shell_has_text_and_links_without_scripts(client):
+ """A crawler that does not run app.js reads the <noscript> block and
+ nothing else, so it must carry the pitch and the links to follow."""
+ html = client.get("/").text
+ m = re.search(r"<noscript>(.*?)</noscript>", html, re.S)
+ assert m, "no <noscript> block"
+ links = re.findall(r'href="([^"]+)"', m.group(1))
+ assert "https://meshbay.org/downloads/" in links
+ assert any(link.endswith("docs/QUICKSTART.md") for link in links)
+ assert "<h1>" in m.group(1)