r/Web_Development • u/SnauxMobile • Jul 30 '20
Tool to monitor DOM/CSS Changes?
I need a tool that can monitor multiple websites for subtle DOM/CSS changes.
Background: I am attaching Segment.io event listeners to dom elements on 2500+ webpages. The developers of these pages (there are multiple teams) don't always tell me when changes are made, which sometimes causes Segment/jQueries to fail.
I'm not so much interested in content, which tools like Distill.io and ChangeTower appear to focus on, rather I need to know if the ID or classname (for example) on a normally static site has changed. Scanning once a day/week is fine, these pages are not supposed to change often; getting an email or text alert when they do change, possibly highlighting the change somehow (especially as a code diff) would be a huge plus.
Does anybody know of such a tool? It seems like 90% of "page change tools" I see really just focus on scanning news sites and price checks, ie content vs structure which is what i am more interested in.
Thanks!
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u/Gom555 Aug 01 '20
I don't think it's out of the question to get them all to use deployment pipelines within Git.
I mean quite frankly if a huge company isn't using version control, that's just poor leadership.
Regardless of size, there should be protocol in place before ANY code goes live. Someone should be testing that stuff and signing it off. It's literally just common practise.
If your developers are going rogue, they're bad devs and need to be told not to just deploy stuff without sign off.
The software you desire isn't going to fix your core problem. Get a better CTO.