nrtv-minions

Do stuff in other peoples' browsers.

Start a server:

cd ~
npm install nrtv-minions
node nrtv-minions/start

Start working by visiting http://localhost:9777/minions

Add a task with the API:

var minions = require("nrtv-minions")

minions.api("http://localhost:9777").addTask(
  function(minion) {
    minion.visit("/")

    minion.pressButton(
      ".go",
      reportBack
    )

    function() {
      minion.report("ok")
    }
  },
  function(message) {
    if (message == "ok") {
      console.log("Yay, everything is OK")
    } else {
      console.log("Something went wrong.")
    }
  }
)

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