Vite X-Clacks-Overhead

A simple Vite plugin to send X-Clacks-Overhead headers.

Installation

npm i vite-clacks-overhead

Usage

Import the plugin in your vite.config.js, and add to your plugins.

import { defineConfig } from 'vite'
import xClacksOverhead from 'vite-clacks-overhead'

const clacks_opts = {
     // The in memoriam part of the clacks.  Defaults to "GNU"
    memoriam: "GNU",
     // Array of the names of those you wish to remember.
    names: ["Terry Pratchett"],
    // The seperator between the names for the header.
    seperator: ", ",
    // Custom message (string) in case you don't want to follow the
    // <memoriam> <name>, <name>, <name>... template (defaults to null)
    custom: null,
}

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [xClacksOverhead(clacks_opts)],
})

Why?

Pratchett wrote this passage in his book "Going Postal", and it stuck with me:

His name, however, continues to be sent in the so-called Overhead of the clacks. The full message is "GNU John Dearheart", where the G means, that the message should be passed on, the N means "Not Logged" and the U that it should be turned around at the end of the line. So as the name "John Dearheart" keeps going up and down the line, this tradition applies a kind of immortality as "a man is not dead while his name is still spoken".

This plugin was inspired by this post. It was made in memory of my mother, who loved Terry Pratchett's stories very much. Cancer sucks.