Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
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Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
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Re: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
#2Please let this be capable of generating PDFs from HTML from the command line.
Re: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
#3Please let this be capable of generating PDFs from HTML from the command line.
FWIW, you can do that now, using phantomjs (which is chrome)
http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html
Re: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
#4Please let this be capable of generating PDFs from HTML from the command line.
FWIW, you can do that now, using phantomjs (which is chrome) http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html
> FWIW, you can do that now, using phantomjs (which is chrome) http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html
It's based on webkit.
Re: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
#5Re: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
#6Any way of scripting this to automate button clicks etc? I use PhantomJS for this now but found it to be incredibly unstable for complex pages.
Re: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
#7Please let this be capable of generating PDFs from HTML from the command line.
FWIW, you can do that now, using phantomjs (which is chrome) http://phantomjs.org/screen-capture.html
It's a useful tool (and huge thanks to those who built it -- and SlimerJS for that matter) but whenever I've reached for there's always been some issue to resolve, generally relating to the exact version and/or set of APIs supported. Headless mode (with PDF support -- which it looks like the latest version of the Chromium remote protocol does indeed have) built into a mainstream browsers is nearly guaranteed to be a smoother experience.
Re: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
#8Any way of scripting this to automate button clicks etc? I use PhantomJS for this now but found it to be incredibly unstable for complex pages.
You can use ChromeDriver, the same as you would for headed Chrome.
Re: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
#9Please let this be capable of generating PDFs from HTML from the command line.
Re: Chrome 59 has cross-platform headless support
#10This is fantastic. I'm using a combination of Chrome and PhantomJS for karma testing right now, for https://github.com/paypal/paypal-checkout and https://github.com/krakenjs/xcomponent. There are hundreds of tests opening up hundreds of iframes and popup windows, and sending a lot of cross-window messages, and that ends up being really memory hungry.
Chrome deals pretty well with garbage collection, so long as I'm careful to de-reference closed windows properly¹, and only uses a maximum of 150mbs. PhantomJS eats up almost 6GB of memory before it's done, which makes it almost unusable on machines with less memory or CI boxes. Travis is a no-go.
I'm hoping running Chrome in headless mode should give a nice speedup for our tests.
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¹ Turns out even a closed popup window or iframe keeps a huge amount of memory hanging around. Who knew.