# GoogleChromeLabs/prerender-loader

📰 Painless universal pre-rendering for Webpack.

Repository: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/prerender-loader
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/prerender-loader
Homepage: https://npm.im/prerender-loader
Language: JavaScript
License: Apache-2.0
License Family: permissive
Topics: webpack, prerender, pre-rendering, html-webpack-plugin
Archived: true
Last push: 2022-04-15T01:11:53+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3017, "days_push": 1602, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1901, forks 48 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:51.611948+00:00)

## What it is
A Webpack loader that performs build-time prerendering of client-side applications, producing static HTML instead of an empty bootstrapping page. It integrates tightly with html-webpack-plugin and supports both DOM-based and string-based rendering.

## Use cases
- prerender a single-page app to static HTML at build time
- improve first contentful paint for a webpack-built site
- generate static HTML from an SPA for SEO
- integrate prerendering with html-webpack-plugin templates
- render app HTML during webpack builds without a separate server

## When to choose
- you already build with Webpack and use html-webpack-plugin
- you want SSR-like static HTML without running a Node server at runtime
- your app is mostly static and doesn't need per-request server rendering

## When to avoid
- you need dynamic server-side rendering per request
- your project doesn't use Webpack
- you need a maintained solution with active updates

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: maintenance
- function: ssr, build-tool, templating
- domain: web-development, frontend, performance
- platform: -
- tags: webpack-loader, prerendering, html-webpack-plugin, static-html-generation, nodejs, web-server

## Member repositories
- GoogleChromeLabs/prerender-loader (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.611948+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:11:55.923825+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/prerender-loader (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:51.611948+00:00, sha 973acf392713)
  - registry_npm: https://registry.npmjs.org/prerender-loader (fetched 2026-08-29T10:51:23.065827+00:00, sha 1b15ef955db9)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.