Electron
puppeteer
Electron | puppeteer | |
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238 | 364 | |
112,430 | 87,240 | |
0.4% | 0.5% | |
9.8 | 9.9 | |
3 days ago | 5 days ago | |
C++ | TypeScript | |
MIT License | Apache License 2.0 |
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Electron
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Top 20 Javascript Libraries on Github
Repository: Electron
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Electrifying Software: Electron
Electron GitHub Repository
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Release Radar • February 2024 Edition
The team at Electron have been faithfully shipping new releases almost every single month. I think they had Christmas off 🤔. This popular framework has developers writing cross-platform desktop applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS. The latest update depreciates some process events, and added new modules, APIs, methods, and more. Read into all the changes in the Electron release notes. This month, Electron also introduced a new formal RFC process.
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The IDEs we had 30 years ago and we lost
VS Code has been crashing at launch in Wayland since more than eight months ago:
https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/37531
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Design Systems with Web Components
So we talked a lot about the Atomic Design Principle, but you could just use that in any system and start creating. You could have Angular components, React Components, and Vue Components. But if you notice these don't easily work Everwhere. So the solution is to use Web Components because the modern browser can already understand these, and any Front-End framework can then utilize these components. You can use Electron for desktop (Slack, VSCode), PWA for both Android and iOS, and across all browsers Can I Use.
- Settings · Rulesets · electron/electron
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How I got Wayland, Vulkan, and hardware acceleration working with Figma on Fedora 39.
I'm noticing a significant boost in performance, crisper text, and better power savings. The only shortcoming is that the window which Figma will run on will lose its shadow. This is due to a technical limitation with frameless windows on Linux.
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Building Apps with Tauri and Elixir
For the longest time, building desktop apps was a daunting task to web developers. That is, until technologies like Electron made creating these apps more approachable to a wider audience. Today, we’ve got a wide array of native applications built with solutions like Electron, Tauri, Capacitor, and many more. While these are great solutions, sometimes configuration can be tricky and the applications we create can become somewhat bloated in terms of memory usage.
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MS Teams & Electron libwebp 0-Day Vulnerability
Electron patch for version 27: https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/39823
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CVE-2023-4863: Heap buffer overflow in WebP (Chrome)
It does, see [0]. Fun fact: Signal desktop, which uses Electron under the hood, is running without sandbox on Linux [1][2].
[0] https://github.com/electron/electron/pull/39824
[1] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/5195
[2] https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/pull/4381
puppeteer
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How to Scrape Dynamic Content with Selenium and Beautiful Soup
Use Selenium or Third-Party APIs: Utilize tools like Selenium / Puppeteer or third-party APIs such as the Crawlbase Crawling API to load the webpage. These tools can handle JavaScript rendering, ensuring all dynamic content is displayed.
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The Puppeteer Language Experiment
This project tests how the browser language can be changed with Puppeteer. It implements multiple options to set the language of Chrome and checks each option against BrowserLeaks to see how it affected the JavaScript proeprties and HTTP headers available by the browser. For more information, see my article The Puppeteer Language Experiment on DEV.to.
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Scrapy Vs. Crawlee
In Crawlee, you can scrape JavaScript rendered websites using the built-in headless Puppeteer and Playwright browsers. It is important to note that, by default, Crawlee scrapes in headless mode. If you don't want headless, then just set headless: false.
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Hacking out an AI spider with Node
Some quick docs fumbling and you get a working script for loading the page and grabbing the innerHTML of the listing element like so:
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Sometimes things simply don't work
I am not in any way associated with the developers at puppeteer, but if you are looking for a way to contribute, they are open source
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The best testing strategies for frontends
With the advent of tools like Puppeteer and now Playwright, end-to-end testing has become much easier and more reliable. For anyone who's used Selenium in the past, you know what I'm talking about. Puppeteer has opened the way in terms of E2E tooling, but Playwright has taken it to the next level and made it easier to await for certain selectors or conditions to be fulfilled (via locators), thus making tests more reliable and less flaky. Also, it's a game changer that it introduced a test-runner - this made the integration between the headless browser and the actual test code much smoother.
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Learn Automated Testing At Home: A Beginner's Guide
1.Puppeteer: Puppeteer is a Node library that provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium using the DevTools Protocol. Key Features: More control over Chrome. Enables web scraping. Allows taking screenshots and generating PDFs for UI testing. Measures load times through the Chrome Performance Analysis tool
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HTML to PDF renderers: A simple comparison
HTML to PDF conversion is a common requirement in modern web applications. It allows users to save web pages, reports, and other content in a format that is easy to share and print. There are many libraries and services available for converting HTML to PDF, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. In this article, we will compare some of the most popular HTML to PDF renderers in Node.js, including Puppeteer, Playwright, node-html-pdf, and Onedoc.
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Let's build a screenshot API
Playwright seems to be a superior library for working with headless browsers than Puppeteer, but I will go with Puppeteer.
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JS Toolbox 2024: Bundlers and Test Frameworks
Puppeteer is a Node library that provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium. It's primarily used for browser automation, making it a powerful tool for end-to-end testing of web applications, taking screenshots, and generating pre-rendered content from web pages.
What are some alternatives?
tauri - Build smaller, faster, and more secure desktop applications with a web frontend.
axios - Promise based HTTP client for the browser and node.js
dotenv - Loads environment variables from .env for nodejs projects.
Nightmare - A high-level browser automation library.
Eel - A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps
Playwright - Playwright is a framework for Web Testing and Automation. It allows testing Chromium, Firefox and WebKit with a single API.
react-native - A framework for building native applications using React
WKHTMLToPDF - Convert HTML to PDF using Webkit (QtWebKit)
cheerio - The fast, flexible, and elegant library for parsing and manipulating HTML and XML.
puppeteer-extra - 💯 Teach puppeteer new tricks through plugins.
jsdom - A JavaScript implementation of various web standards, for use with Node.js
karma - Spectacular Test Runner for JavaScript