What is Poltergeist?
Poltergeist is a driver for Capybara. It allows you to run your Capybara tests on a headless WebKit browser, provided by PhantomJS.
Poltergeist is a tool in the Testing Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Poltergeist is an open source tool with 2.5K GitHub stars and 414 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Poltergeist's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses Poltergeist?
Companies
6 companies reportedly use Poltergeist in their tech stacks, including immmr, LendingHome, and Growstuff.
Developers
10 developers on StackShare have stated that they use Poltergeist.
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Poltergeist Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Poltergeist?
Ghost
Ghost is a platform dedicated to one thing: Publishing. It's beautifully designed, completely customisable and completely Open Source. Ghost allows you to write and publish your own blog, giving you the tools to make it easy and even fun to do.
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.
Remake
It is a new way to build web apps. It lets startups launch products quicker and start talking to customers sooner.
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.
Git
Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
