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  5. AWS CodePipeline vs PhantomJS

AWS CodePipeline vs PhantomJS

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Overview

PhantomJS
PhantomJS
Stacks1.7K
Followers430
Votes18
GitHub Stars29.5K
Forks5.7K
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodePipeline
Stacks551
Followers933
Votes30

AWS CodePipeline vs PhantomJS: What are the differences?

AWS CodePipeline: Continuous delivery service for fast and reliable application updates. CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define; PhantomJS: Scriptable Headless WebKit. PhantomJS (www.phantomjs.org) is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow.

AWS CodePipeline can be classified as a tool in the "Continuous Deployment" category, while PhantomJS is grouped under "Headless Browsers".

Some of the features offered by AWS CodePipeline are:

  • Workflow Modeling
  • AWS Integrations
  • Pre-Built Plugins

On the other hand, PhantomJS provides the following key features:

  • Multiplatform, available on major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unices.
  • Fast and native implementation of web standards: DOM, CSS, JavaScript, Canvas, and SVG. No emulation!
  • Pure headless (no X11) on Linux, ideal for continuous integration systems. Also runs on Amazon EC2, Heroku, and Iron.io.

"Simple to set up" is the top reason why over 3 developers like AWS CodePipeline, while over 12 developers mention "Scriptable web browser" as the leading cause for choosing PhantomJS.

PhantomJS is an open source tool with 26.9K GitHub stars and 5.7K GitHub forks. Here's a link to PhantomJS's open source repository on GitHub.

Key Location, Ghost Inspector, and Tailor Brands are some of the popular companies that use PhantomJS, whereas AWS CodePipeline is used by Volta Industries, ChromaDex, and PouchNATION. PhantomJS has a broader approval, being mentioned in 78 company stacks & 47 developers stacks; compared to AWS CodePipeline, which is listed in 30 company stacks and 15 developer stacks.

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Advice on PhantomJS, AWS CodePipeline

Ankur
Ankur

Software Engineer

Dec 4, 2019

Needs advice

I am using Node 12 for server scripting and have a function to generate PDF and send it to a browser. Currently, we are using PhantomJS to generate a PDF. Some web post shows that we can achieve PDF generation using Puppeteer. I was a bit confused. Should we move to puppeteerJS? Which one is better with NodeJS for generating PDF?

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Detailed Comparison

PhantomJS
PhantomJS
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodePipeline

PhantomJS is a headless WebKit scriptable with JavaScript. It is used by hundreds of developers and dozens of organizations for web-related development workflow.

CodePipeline builds, tests, and deploys your code every time there is a code change, based on the release process models you define.

Multiplatform, available on major operating systems: Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, and other Unices; Fast and native implementation of web standards: DOM, CSS, JavaScript, Canvas, and SVG. No emulation; Pure headless (no X11) on Linux, ideal for continuous integration systems. Also runs on Amazon EC2, Heroku, and Iron.io; Easy to install: Download, unpack, and start having fun in just 5 minutes
Workflow Modeling;AWS Integrations;Pre-Built Plugins;Custom Plugins;Declarative Templates;Access Control
Statistics
GitHub Stars
29.5K
GitHub Stars
-
GitHub Forks
5.7K
GitHub Forks
-
Stacks
1.7K
Stacks
551
Followers
430
Followers
933
Votes
18
Votes
30
Pros & Cons
Pros
  • 13
    Scriptable web browser
  • 3
    Depends on QT
  • 2
    No ECMAScript 6
Pros
  • 13
    Simple to set up
  • 8
    Managed service
  • 4
    GitHub integration
  • 3
    Parallel Execution
  • 2
    Automatic deployment
Cons
  • 2
    No project boards
  • 1
    No integration with "Power" 365 tools
Integrations
FreeBSD
FreeBSD
macOS
macOS
Windows
Windows
Linux
Linux
Runscope
Runscope
Amazon S3
Amazon S3
GitHub
GitHub
Jenkins
Jenkins
CloudBees
CloudBees
BlazeMeter
BlazeMeter
Ghost Inspector
Ghost Inspector
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
Amazon EC2
Amazon EC2

What are some alternatives to PhantomJS, AWS CodePipeline?

Buddy

Buddy

Git platform for web and software developers with Docker-based tools for Continuous Integration and Deployment.

Cloud 66

Cloud 66

Cloud 66 gives you everything you need to build, deploy and maintain your applications on any cloud, without the headache of dealing with "server stuff". Frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Jamstack, Laravel, GoLang, and more.

Playwright

Playwright

It is a Node library to automate the Chromium, WebKit and Firefox browsers with a single API. It enables cross-browser web automation that is ever-green, capable, reliable and fast.

DeployBot

DeployBot

DeployBot makes it simple to deploy your work anywhere. You can compile or process your code in a Docker container on our infrastructure, and we'll copy it to your servers once everything has been successfully built.

Puppeteer

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.

Deployer

Deployer

A deployment tool written in PHP with support for popular frameworks out of the box

Spinnaker

Spinnaker

Created at Netflix, it has been battle-tested in production by hundreds of teams over millions of deployments. It combines a powerful and flexible pipeline management system with integrations to the major cloud providers.

Harness.io

Harness.io

It automates the entire CI/CD process, uses machine learning to protect you when deployments fail, equips you with enterprise-grade security, & simplifies cloud cost visibility, savings, & forecasting without any tagging requirements.

Google Cloud Build

Google Cloud Build

Cloud Build lets you build software quickly across all languages. Get complete control over defining custom workflows for building, testing, and deploying across multiple environments such as VMs, serverless, Kubernetes, or Firebase.

HeadlessTesting

HeadlessTesting

Headless Browser Cloud for Developers. Connect your Puppeteer and Playwright scripts to our Cloud. Automated Browser Testing with Puppeteer and Playwright in the Cloud.

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