browser-task

Do stuff in other peoples' browsers with browser-task.

Start a server:

cd ~
npm install browser-task
node browser-task/start

That should open http://localhost:9777/browser in your web browser, so that there is a worker in the queue available to do tasks.

Add a task with the API:

var browserTask = require("browser-task")

var browser = browserTask(
  "http://localhost:9777",
  function() {
    browser.pressButton(".go", thenExpectSomething)})

function thenExpectSomething() {
  browser.assertText(".my-div", "BANG!",
  thenBeDone)}
  
function thenBeDone (){
  browser.done()}

Methods

browser.assertHasClas("#my-selector", "some-class-name", callback)
browser.assertNoClass(...)
browser.pressButton("#some-button", callback)
browser.done()

Screencast

Notes

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Why

• you always get to a point when you want to pause the test and look in the browser anyway

• it works on any browser you want, so you can use it for testing too

• I will need it for screencasting tests, customer support, etc anyway

• iframe stuff doesn't work in zombiejs. In general there are holes in the zombie/jsdom coverage

• jsdom uses ES6. Also it is a nightmare.

• zombie uses ws which uses bufferutils which compiles stuff and slows down npm installs dramatically