What is jsdom?
It is a pure-JavaScript implementation of many web standards, notably the WHATWG DOM and HTML Standards, for use with Node.js. In general, the goal of the project is to emulate enough of a subset of a web browser to be useful for testing and scraping real-world web applications.
jsdom is a tool in the Headless Browsers category of a tech stack.
jsdom is an open source tool with 19.9K GitHub stars and 1.6K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to jsdom's open source repository on GitHub
Who uses jsdom?
Companies
35 companies reportedly use jsdom in their tech stacks, including metamaskbrowser, Front End, and ElonSucks.org.
Developers
205 developers on StackShare have stated that they use jsdom.
jsdom Integrations
Pros of jsdom
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jsdom's Features
- Canvas support
- Encoding sniffing
- Closing down a jsdom
- Running jsdom inside a web browser
- Debugging the DOM using Chrome Devtools
jsdom Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to jsdom?
Selenium
Selenium automates browsers. That's it! What you do with that power is entirely up to you. Primarily, it is for automating web applications for testing purposes, but is certainly not limited to just that. Boring web-based administration tasks can (and should!) also be automated as well.
PhantomJS
PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow.
Enzyme
Enzyme is a JavaScript Testing utility for React that makes it easier to assert, manipulate, and traverse your React Components' output.
Domino
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Puppeteer
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome over the DevTools Protocol. It can also be configured to use full (non-headless) Chrome.
