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Alternatives to CasperJS

PhantomJS, Selenium, Puppeteer, Cypress, and SlimerJS are the most popular alternatives and competitors to CasperJS.
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What is CasperJS and what are its top alternatives?

CasperJS is a browser navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for PhantomJS or SlimerJS.
CasperJS is a tool in the Headless Browsers category of a tech stack.
CasperJS is an open source tool with 7.2K GitHub stars and 986 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to CasperJS's open source repository on GitHub

Top Alternatives to CasperJS

  • PhantomJS
    PhantomJS

    PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow. ...

  • Selenium
    Selenium

    Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well. ...

  • Puppeteer
    Puppeteer

    Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome. ...

  • Cypress
    Cypress

    Cypress is a front end automated testing application created for the modern web. Cypress is built on a new architecture and runs in the same run-loop as the application being tested. As a result Cypress provides better, faster, and more reliable testing for anything that runs in a browser. Cypress works on any front-end framework or website. ...

  • SlimerJS
    SlimerJS

    It allows you to manipulate a web page with an external Javascript script: opening a webpage, clicking on links, modifying the content... It is useful to do functional tests, page automation, network monitoring, screen capture etc. ...

  • Protractor
    Protractor

    Protractor is an end-to-end test framework for Angular and AngularJS applications. Protractor runs tests against your application running in a real browser, interacting with it as a user would. ...

  • JavaScript
    JavaScript

    JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles. ...

  • Python
    Python

    Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best. ...

CasperJS alternatives & related posts

PhantomJS logo

PhantomJS

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    Tim Abbott

    We use CasperJS because we adopted it back in 2013 for JavaScript frontend testing. It was a really nice system back then compared to what else was out there; you had PhantomJS as a programmable browser that actually rendered CSS and everything, it was really fast (speed is a big downside of e.g. Selenium), and it was possible to make non-flaky frontend integration tests with it.

    I wouldn't recommend it today, because PhantomJS is a basically dead project, and as a result, so is CasperJS. I expect we'll migrate to something else. We haven't in large part because 95% of our new tests are written with a simple Node.js-based unit testing framework we use that run 35K lines of unit tests covering most of our JS codebase in 3.6 seconds. And for the things where we want an integration test, CasperJS does work, and I think there's a good chance that waiting another year or two will result in our being able to switch to a much better option than what we'd get if we migrated now.

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    Selenium logo

    Selenium

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      Automates browsers
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      Testing
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      Essential tool for running test automation
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      Record-Playback
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      Remote Control
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      Data crawling
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      Supports end to end testing
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      Easy set up
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      Functional testing
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      The Most flexible monitoring system
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      End to End Testing
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      Easy to integrate with build tools
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      Comparing the performance selenium is faster than jasm
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      Record and playback
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      Compatible with Python
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      Easy to scale
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      Integration Tests
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      Integrated into Selenium-Jupiter framework
    CONS OF SELENIUM
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      Flaky tests
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      Slow as needs to make browser (even with no gui)
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      Update browser drivers

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    Kamil Kowalski
    Lead Architect at Fresha · | 28 upvotes · 3.8M views

    When you think about test automation, it’s crucial to make it everyone’s responsibility (not just QA Engineers'). We started with Selenium and Java, but with our platform revolving around Ruby, Elixir and JavaScript, QA Engineers were left alone to automate tests. Cypress was the answer, as we could switch to JS and simply involve more people from day one. There's a downside too, as it meant testing on Chrome only, but that was "good enough" for us + if really needed we can always cover some specific cases in a different way.

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    Benjamin Poon
    QA Manager - Engineering at HBC Digital · | 8 upvotes · 1.9M views

    For our digital QA organization to support a complex hybrid monolith/microservice architecture, our team took on the lofty goal of building out a commonized UI test automation framework. One of the primary requisites included a technical minimalist threshold such that an engineer or analyst with fundamental knowledge of JavaScript could automate their tests with greater ease. Just to list a few: - Nightwatchjs - Selenium - Cucumber - GitHub - Go.CD - Docker - ExpressJS - React - PostgreSQL

    With this structure, we're able to combine the automation efforts of each team member into a centralized repository while also providing new relevant metrics to business owners.

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    Puppeteer logo

    Puppeteer

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    PROS OF PUPPETEER
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      Very well documented
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      Scriptable web browser
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      Promise based
    CONS OF PUPPETEER
    • 10
      Chrome only

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    Raziel Alron
    Automation Engineer at Tipalti · | 7 upvotes · 2M views

    Currently, we are using Protractor in our project. Since Protractor isn't updated anymore, we are looking for a new tool. The strongest suggestions are WebdriverIO or Puppeteer. Please help me figure out what tool would make the transition fastest and easiest. Please note that Protractor uses its own locator system, and we want the switch to be as simple as possible. Thank you!

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    I work in a company building web apps with AngularJS. I started using Selenium for tests automation, as I am more familiar with Python. However, I found some difficulties, like the impossibility of using IDs and fixed lists of classes, ending up with using xpaths most, which unfortunately could change with fixes and modifications in the code.

    So, I started using Puppeteer, but I am still learning. It seems easier to find elements on the webpage, even if the creation and managing of arrays of elements seem to be a little bit more complicated than in Selenium, but it could be also due to my poor knowledge of JavaScript.

    Any comments on this comparison and also on comparisons with similar tools are welcome! :)

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    Cypress logo

    Cypress

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    When testing is easy, developers build better things faster and with confidence.
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    PROS OF CYPRESS
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      Open source
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      Great documentation
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      Simple usage
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      Fast
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      Cross Browser testing
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      Easy us with CI
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      Npm install cypress only
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      Good for beginner automation engineers
    CONS OF CYPRESS
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      Cypress is weak at cross-browser testing
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      Switch tabs : Cypress can'nt support
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      No iFrame support
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      No page object support
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      No multiple domain support
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      No file upload support
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      No support for multiple tab control
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      No xPath support
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      No support for Safari
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      Cypress doesn't support native app
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      Re-run failed tests retries not supported yet
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      No support for multiple browser control
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      $20/user/thread for reports
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      Adobe
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      Using a non-standard automation protocol
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      Not freeware
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      No 'WD wire protocol' support

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    Kamil Kowalski
    Lead Architect at Fresha · | 28 upvotes · 3.8M views

    When you think about test automation, it’s crucial to make it everyone’s responsibility (not just QA Engineers'). We started with Selenium and Java, but with our platform revolving around Ruby, Elixir and JavaScript, QA Engineers were left alone to automate tests. Cypress was the answer, as we could switch to JS and simply involve more people from day one. There's a downside too, as it meant testing on Chrome only, but that was "good enough" for us + if really needed we can always cover some specific cases in a different way.

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    Robert Zuber

    We are in the process of adopting Next.js as our React framework and using Storybook to help build our React components in isolation. This new part of our frontend is written in TypeScript, and we use Emotion for CSS/styling. For delivering data, we use GraphQL and Apollo. Jest, Percy, and Cypress are used for testing.

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    SlimerJS logo

    SlimerJS

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    A scriptable browser for Web developers
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    PROS OF SLIMERJS
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      CONS OF SLIMERJS
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        Protractor logo

        Protractor

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          Easy setup
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          Quick tests implementation
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          Flexible
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          Open source
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          Promise support
        CONS OF PROTRACTOR
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          Limited

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        Raziel Alron
        Automation Engineer at Tipalti · | 7 upvotes · 2M views

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        Sai Chaitanya Mankala
        Tech Lead at KIOT Innovations · | 6 upvotes · 859.6K views

        Protractor or Cypress for ionic-angular?

        We have a huge ionic-angular app with almost 100 pages and 10+ injectables. There are no tests written yet. Before we start, we need some suggestions about the framework. Would you suggest Cypress or Angular's Protractor with Jasmine / Karma for a heavy ionic app with Angular?

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        JavaScript logo

        JavaScript

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          Can be used on frontend/backend
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          It's everywhere
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          Lots of great frameworks
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          Fast
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          Light weight
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          Flexible
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          You can't get a device today that doesn't run js
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          Non-blocking i/o
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          Ubiquitousness
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          Expressive
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          Extended functionality to web pages
        • 49
          Relatively easy language
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          Executed on the client side
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          Relatively fast to the end user
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          Pure Javascript
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          Functional programming
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          Async
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          Full-stack
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          Its everywhere
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          Setup is easy
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          JavaScript is the New PHP
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          Because I love functions
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          Like it or not, JS is part of the web standard
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          Easy
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          Future Language of The Web
        • 9
          Can be used in backend, frontend and DB
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          Expansive community
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          Most Popular Language in the World
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          Can be used both as frontend and backend as well
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          For the good parts
        • 8
          No need to use PHP
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          Easy to hire developers
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          Everyone use it
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          Love-hate relationship
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          Popularized Class-Less Architecture & Lambdas
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          Agile, packages simple to use
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          Supports lambdas and closures
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          Powerful
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          Photoshop has 3 JS runtimes built in
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          Evolution of C
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          1.6K Can be used on frontend/backend
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          Can be used on frontend/backend/Mobile/create PRO Ui
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          Versitile
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          It let's me use Babel & Typescript
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          Easy to make something
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          Its fun and fast
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          Client side JS uses the visitors CPU to save Server Res
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          Hard not to use
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          Nice
        • 6
          It's fun
        • 5
          What to add
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          Clojurescript
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          Promise relationship
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          Stockholm Syndrome
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          Function expressions are useful for callbacks
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          Scope manipulation
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          Everywhere
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          Client processing
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          Only Programming language on browser
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          Because it is so simple and lightweight
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          Test
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          Not the best
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          Subskill #4
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          Easy to learn
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          Easy to understand
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          Hard to learn
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          Test2
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          Hard 彤
        CONS OF JAVASCRIPT
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          A constant moving target, too much churn
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          Horribly inconsistent
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          Javascript is the New PHP
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          No ability to monitor memory utilitization
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          Shows Zero output in case of ANY error
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          Thinks strange results are better than errors
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          Can be ugly
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          No GitHub
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          Slow

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        Oof. I have truly hated JavaScript for a long time. Like, for over twenty years now. Like, since the Clinton administration. It's always been a nightmare to deal with all of the aspects of that silly language.

        But wowza, things have changed. Tooling is just way, way better. I'm primarily web-oriented, and using React and Apollo together the past few years really opened my eyes to building rich apps. And I deeply apologize for using the phrase rich apps; I don't think I've ever said such Enterprisey words before.

        But yeah, things are different now. I still love Rails, and still use it for a lot of apps I build. But it's that silly rich apps phrase that's the problem. Users have way more comprehensive expectations than they did even five years ago, and the JS community does a good job at building tools and tech that tackle the problems of making heavy, complicated UI and frontend work.

        Obviously there's a lot of things happening here, so just saying "JavaScript isn't terrible" might encompass a huge amount of libraries and frameworks. But if you're like me, yeah, give things another shot- I'm somehow not hating on JavaScript anymore and... gulp... I kinda love it.

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        Conor Myhrvold
        Tech Brand Mgr, Office of CTO at Uber · | 44 upvotes · 9.5M views

        How Uber developed the open source, end-to-end distributed tracing Jaeger , now a CNCF project:

        Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

        Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

        https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

        (GitHub Pages : https://www.jaegertracing.io/, GitHub: https://github.com/jaegertracing/jaeger)

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        Python logo

        Python

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          Beautiful code
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          Rapid development
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          Large community
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          Elegant
        • 280
          Great community
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          Object oriented
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          Dynamic typing
        • 77
          Great standard library
        • 58
          Very fast
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          Functional programming
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          Easy to learn
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          Scientific computing
        • 35
          Great documentation
        • 28
          Matlab alternative
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          Productivity
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          Easy to read
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          Simple is better than complex
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          It's the way I think
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          Imperative
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          Free
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          Very programmer and non-programmer friendly
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          Machine learning support
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          Powerfull language
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          Fast and simple
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          Scripting
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          Explicit is better than implicit
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          Ease of development
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          Clear and easy and powerfull
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          Unlimited power
        • 8
          It's lean and fun to code
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          Import antigravity
        • 7
          Python has great libraries for data processing
        • 7
          Print "life is short, use python"
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          Flat is better than nested
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          Readability counts
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          Rapid Prototyping
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          Fast coding and good for competitions
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          Now is better than never
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          There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious
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          High Documented language
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          I love snakes
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          Great for tooling
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          Lists, tuples, dictionaries
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          Web scraping
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          Beautiful is better than ugly
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          Plotting
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          CG industry needs
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          Should START with this but not STICK with This
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          Because of Netflix
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        CONS OF PYTHON
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          Performance impact
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          Poor syntax for anonymous functions
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          GIL
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          Package management is a mess
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          Poor DSL capabilities
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        Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architectures. At Uber, our open source distributed tracing system Jaeger saw large-scale internal adoption throughout 2016, integrated into hundreds of microservices and now recording thousands of traces every second.

        Here is the story of how we got here, from investigating off-the-shelf solutions like Zipkin, to why we switched from pull to push architecture, and how distributed tracing will continue to evolve:

        https://eng.uber.com/distributed-tracing/

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        Nick Parsons
        Building cool things on the internet 🛠️ at Stream · | 35 upvotes · 3.2M views

        Winds 2.0 is an open source Podcast/RSS reader developed by Stream with a core goal to enable a wide range of developers to contribute.

        We chose JavaScript because nearly every developer knows or can, at the very least, read JavaScript. With ES6 and Node.js v10.x.x, it’s become a very capable language. Async/Await is powerful and easy to use (Async/Await vs Promises). Babel allows us to experiment with next-generation JavaScript (features that are not in the official JavaScript spec yet). Yarn allows us to consistently install packages quickly (and is filled with tons of new tricks)

        We’re using JavaScript for everything – both front and backend. Most of our team is experienced with Go and Python, so Node was not an obvious choice for this app.

        Sure... there will be haters who refuse to acknowledge that there is anything remotely positive about JavaScript (there are even rants on Hacker News about Node.js); however, without writing completely in JavaScript, we would not have seen the results we did.

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