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• puppetromium

  10 50 4.9 JavaScript

  :tophat: A single tab web browser built with puppeteer. Also, no client-side JS. Viewport is streamed with MJPEG. For realz.

  

This is a browser front-end (ultra simple) for Chrome, built using puppeteer. I like it because it provides a usable single browser tab (that conveniently crashes on certificate errors (thanks to puppeteers default flags which I haven't altered here)), without using any JS scripting on the client side.

There's some clever hacks to get that to work, including stylesheet media queries (to zero in on the correct viewport dimensions), and MJPEG, a crazy HTTP keep-alive way to stream JPEG frames of a video, favored by old-style CCTV/security/web cameras allegedly.

I noticed it went from 18 to 19 stars yesterday so I decided to fire it up again to see what all the fuss was about, and do the minimum to fix the tiniest number of bugs to improve the install process for folks wanting to check it out (removing the default sudo install scripts in the npm postinstall was a good idea, heh).

I plan to set up a silly demo of this sometime, so all can join in the fun on a server. It's just really ridiculous to see a modern web site "render" with a ridiculous UI controlled by: URL bar, Down button (scroll down), Up button (scroll up), "Enter text" field (that only pops up when a text control is focused ~~ wow, if I say so myself ;p ;) xx ;P )

I almost forgot the URL: https://github.com/crisdosyago/puppetromium

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io featured

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

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