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CasperJS vs jsdom: What are the differences?
CasperJS: Navigation scripting & testing for PhantomJS and SlimerJS. CasperJS is a browser navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for PhantomJS or SlimerJS; jsdom: A JavaScript implementation of the WHATWG DOM and HTML standards, for use with node.js. 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.
CasperJS and jsdom can be categorized as "Headless Browsers" tools.
CasperJS and jsdom are both open source tools. jsdom with 12.9K GitHub stars and 1.16K forks on GitHub appears to be more popular than CasperJS with 7.3K GitHub stars and 1.06K GitHub forks.
Pros of CasperJS
Pros of jsdom
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