stimulus-use VS ferrum

Compare stimulus-use vs ferrum and see what are their differences.

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stimulus-use ferrum
9 9
1,374 1,628
3.5% 3.7%
8.7 8.5
3 days ago 6 days ago
JavaScript Ruby
MIT License MIT License
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stimulus-use

Posts with mentions or reviews of stimulus-use. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-01-19.
  • A powerful search feature with what Rails provides out of the box
    6 projects | dev.to | 19 Jan 2023
    You can see that I added a dependency here: stimulus-use.
  • Discover Symfony UX’s Twig Components. UI without JS or BS.
    6 projects | dev.to | 21 Aug 2022
    “stimulus-use: Add composable behaviors to your Stimulus controllers, like debouncing, detecting outside clicks and many other things.
  • RVTWS: a Ruby stack for modern web apps
    9 projects | dev.to | 24 Jun 2022
    Actually, Stimulus is pretty cool because you can compose multiple pre-built behaviors into one Stimulus controller, for a sort of functional approach to component behaviors. The tradeoff is that a growing web of Stimulus controllers (plus HTML data attributes associated with them) can become complex and hard to understand.
  • Tailwind style CSS transitions with StimulusJS
    3 projects | dev.to | 1 Jun 2022
    The stimulus-use project is a collection of reusable behaviors for Stimulus. If you are familiar with React, this project is similar to React’s hooks system, but for Stimulus controllers.
  • Pagination and infinite scrolling with Rails and the Hotwire stack
    7 projects | dev.to | 4 Feb 2022
    To make using the IntersectionObserver API easier, we will add the wonderful stimulus-use package to our application. This is not a requirement, but it does simplify the code a bit.
  • Upgrade to Stimulus 3, say bye to IE11, and celebrate 🎉
    4 projects | dev.to | 19 Oct 2021
    Finally, as we recently added the Stimulus-Use library to our project, we made sure to upgrade it to current beta which supports Stimulus 3.
  • Migrating Selenium system tests to Cuprite
    10 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2021
    For example, we have a few ”live search“ fields, backed by back-end Fetch requests, on some pages. The live search function was usually triggered by the keyup event and Cuprite was such a fast typewriter that it frequently sent multiple requests almost at once. If some of the responses got a bit late or out of sync, the front-end JavaScript code began hitting issues. We solved this by adopting a technique called debouncing and, frankly, we should have done this since the beginning. By the way, we used the useDebounce module from the marvelous Stimulus-use library to achieve this.

ferrum

Posts with mentions or reviews of ferrum. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-09-13.
  • Learning Ruby Basics
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 13 Sep 2022
    What are you using for automation? There's a relatively new gem that I heard good things of, vessel: https://github.com/rubycdp/vessel . It uses ferrum under the hood, a set of Ruby bindings to Chrome/Chromium (https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum).
  • Ruby web scraping gem that can handle JS?
    2 projects | /r/rails | 13 Jul 2022
    I've used https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum as driver for automated testing with capybara for which it works great. It recommends https://github.com/rubycdp/vessel as higher level abstraction for web scraping.
  • Automating Jekyll card generation with ruby’s Ferrum gem
    3 projects | dev.to | 12 May 2022
    require "Rubygems" require "Ferrum" def generate_card(browser, card, png, options={}) browser.go_to("http://localhost:4000/cards/#{card}") # see all the options here https://github.com/rubycdp/ferrum#screenshots browser.screenshot(path: "./images/cards/#{png}", full: true, # final image size is window_size x scale scale: 2) end browser = Ferrum::Browser.new(window_size: [800, 418]) # Check what cards we need to make Dir.glob("_posts/*").each do |post| post = File.basename(post, ".md") png = post + ".png" card = post + ".html" generate_card(browser, card, png) unless File.exists?("./images/cards/#{png}") end
  • Best library for scraping dynamic page in Sidekiq background job (Selenium/Puppeteer/Cypress/Playwright)
    2 projects | /r/rails | 7 May 2022
  • Migrating Selenium system tests to Cuprite
    10 projects | dev.to | 4 Oct 2021
    That is why we were happy to find out that a new ruby testing driver approach is being developed. It is called Cuprite, it runs the Ferrum library under the hood which, in turn, is an API that directly instruments the Chrome browser using the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP). About a week ago, we finally made a serious attempt to make our system test suite run on Cuprite, with especially two questions in our minds:
  • Web scraping with rails
    7 projects | /r/rails | 16 Sep 2021
    I've used Ferrum for a couple small scripts in the past before.
  • My favorite Ruby gems
    3 projects | /r/ruby | 28 May 2021
    Ferrum

What are some alternatives?

When comparing stimulus-use and ferrum you can also consider the following projects:

Capybara - Acceptance test framework for web applications

Selenium WebDriver - A browser automation framework and ecosystem.

cuprite - Headless Chrome/Chromium driver for Capybara

dropzone - Dropzone is an easy to use drag'n'drop library. It supports image previews and shows nice progress bars.

puppeteer - Headless Chrome Node.js API [Moved to: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer]

puffing-billy - A rewriting web proxy for testing interactions between your browser and external sites. Works with ruby + rspec.

hotwire-example-template - A collection of branches that transmit HTML over the wire.

puphpeteer - A Puppeteer bridge for PHP, supporting the entire API.

Nokogiri - Nokogiri (鋸) makes it easy and painless to work with XML and HTML from Ruby.

ungoogled-chromium-fedora - RPM build for ungoogled-chromium