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Nightmare.js vs PhantomJS

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PhantomJS
PhantomJS
Stacks1.7K
Followers430
Votes18
GitHub Stars29.5K
Forks5.7K
Nightmare.js
Nightmare.js
Stacks11
Followers26
Votes0

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Advice on PhantomJS, Nightmare.js

Ankur
Ankur

Software Engineer

Dec 4, 2019

Needs advice

I am using Node 12 for server scripting and have a function to generate PDF and send it to a browser. Currently, we are using PhantomJS to generate a PDF. Some web post shows that we can achieve PDF generation using Puppeteer. I was a bit confused. Should we move to puppeteerJS? Which one is better with NodeJS for generating PDF?

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Detailed Comparison

PhantomJS
PhantomJS
Nightmare.js
Nightmare.js

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

It is a high-level browser automation library. It lets you simplify deeply nested callbacks into a few sequential statements. Its goal is to expose a few simple methods that mimic user actions.

Multiplatform, available on major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unices; Fast and native implementation of web standards: DOM, CSS, JavaScript, Canvas, and SVG. No emulation; Pure headless (no X11) on Linux, ideal for continuous integration systems. Also runs on Amazon EC2, Heroku, and Iron.io; Easy to install: Download, unpack, and start having fun in just 5 minutes
Browser automation ; Simplify deeply nested callbacks
Statistics
GitHub Stars
29.5K
GitHub Stars
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GitHub Forks
5.7K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
1.7K
Stacks
11
Followers
430
Followers
26
Votes
18
Votes
0
Pros & Cons
Pros
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    Scriptable web browser
  • 3
    Depends on QT
  • 2
    No ECMAScript 6
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FreeBSD
FreeBSD
macOS
macOS
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Windows
Linux
Linux
Electron
Electron
Google Chrome
Google Chrome

What are some alternatives to PhantomJS, Nightmare.js?

Underscore

Underscore

A JavaScript library that provides a whole mess of useful functional programming helpers without extending any built-in objects.

Deno

Deno

It is a secure runtime for JavaScript and TypeScript built with V8, Rust, and Tokio.

Playwright

Playwright

It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

Chart.js

Chart.js

Visualize your data in 6 different ways. Each of them animated, with a load of customisation options and interactivity extensions.

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.

Immutable.js

Immutable.js

Immutable provides Persistent Immutable List, Stack, Map, OrderedMap, Set, OrderedSet and Record. They are highly efficient on modern JavaScript VMs by using structural sharing via hash maps tries and vector tries as popularized by Clojure and Scala, minimizing the need to copy or cache data.

HeadlessTesting

HeadlessTesting

Headless Browser Cloud for Developers. Connect your Puppeteer and Playwright scripts to our Cloud. Automated Browser Testing with Puppeteer and Playwright in the Cloud.

Lodash

Lodash

A JavaScript utility library delivering consistency, modularity, performance, & extras. It provides utility functions for common programming tasks using the functional programming paradigm.

Ramda

Ramda

It emphasizes a purer functional style. Immutability and side-effect free functions are at the heart of its design philosophy. This can help you get the job done with simple, elegant code.

Vue CLI

Vue CLI

Vue CLI aims to be the standard tooling baseline for the Vue ecosystem. It ensures the various build tools work smoothly together with sensible defaults so you can focus on writing your app instead of spending days wrangling with config.

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