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I always disliked working with Phantom. Slow, buggy, crashy, limiting and weird subset of Javascript support with an awful ecosystem of hacks trying to get it u

I always disliked working with Phantom. Slow, buggy, crashy, limiting and weird subset of Javascript support with an awful ecosystem of hacks trying to get it usable in Node. I can't wait until a more stable tool superceeds it.

zlagen 10y ago
Casperjs, which runs on top of PhantomJS has been nicer to use for me. Also Nightmare(http://www.nightmarejs.org/ http://www.nightmarejs.org/). The problem I always had with PhantomJS is that it's more difficult than it should be to automatize very simple website interactions. In Nightmare's homepage you can see a comparison between a script made in PhantomJS and one in Nightmare.
- btrask 10y ago
  These abstractions are building on top of sand.
  - jazoom 10y ago
    Electron isn't sand.
- fake-name 10y ago
  NightmareJS isn't headless, which is a dealbreaker for me. I'm automating in environments that don't have X.
  - jazoom 10y ago
    Yeah, that's the problem with Nightmare. It's great otherwise.
    - beobab 10y ago
      Witty comment about it being a Nightmare.