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whats the best headless browser for CI/CD? I've always used Phantom, but would be keen to explore alternatives (especially if it could quiet the "nobody uses ph

• networked 10y ago
  For me so far the most pleasant to work with has (contrary to its name) been Nightmare (http://www.nightmarejs.org/ http://www.nightmarejs.org/), which is a Node.js library that drives Electron. It has a really pleasant API and its developers claim that it is faster than PhantomJS. Unlike PhantomJS, however, it is not truly headless; it needs an X server like xvfb to run.
• cyrusroshan 10y ago
  I write tests using chromedriver. Ends up being really simple to write, and if I want to debug something, it's just a chrome instance that I can use normally if I make the tests wait. Only downside is you have to make it run with xvfb on the CI server, but that's pretty easy to set up in your config file usually.
  • SigmundA 10y ago
    Is headless Chrome working yet? https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headless/README.md https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/lkgr/headle...
    • fake-name 10y ago
      It works, but there are a number of issues in the remote control protocol. (note: I am developing a python wrapper for controlling it: https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeController https://github.com/fake-name/ChromeController ) I've been meaning to see about wrapping the C++ api as a python module, but not had time.
  • mattfrasernz 10y ago
    You can also run Chrome inside a docker container and drive it with the remote driver. Handy if you are running on an aws Linux instance with no X
• mnutt 10y ago
  While not actually a real-life browser, Phantom 2.5 is _much_ closer to a real-life browser engine than it was previously.