Serverless Chrome vs jsdom

Overview

Serverless Chrome

Stacks7

Followers25

Votes0

GitHub Stars2.9K

Forks280

jsdom

Stacks1.6K

Followers55

Votes1

GitHub Stars21.3K

Forks1.8K

Serverless Chrome vs jsdom: What are the differences?

What is Serverless Chrome? Headless Chrome on AWS Lambda. The aim of this project is to provide the scaffolding for using Headless Chrome during a serverless function invocation. Serverless Chrome takes care of building and bundling the Chrome binaries and making sure Chrome is running when your serverless function executes. In addition, this project also provides a few "example" handlers for common patterns (e.g. taking a screenshot of a page, printing to PDF, some scraping, etc.).

What is 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.

Serverless Chrome and jsdom can be primarily classified as "Headless Browsers" tools.

Serverless Chrome and jsdom are both open source tools. It seems that jsdom with 12.9K GitHub stars and 1.16K forks on GitHub has more adoption than Serverless Chrome with 2.01K GitHub stars and 203 GitHub forks.

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Serverless Chrome	jsdom
The aim of this project is to provide the scaffolding for using Headless Chrome during a serverless function invocation. Serverless Chrome takes care of building and bundling the Chrome binaries and making sure Chrome is running when your serverless function executes. In addition, this project also provides a few "example" handlers for common patterns (e.g. taking a screenshot of a page, printing to PDF, some scraping, etc.)	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.
-	Canvas support;Encoding sniffing;Closing down a jsdom;Running jsdom inside a web browser;Debugging the DOM using Chrome Devtools
Statistics
GitHub Stars 2.9K	GitHub Stars 21.3K
GitHub Forks 280	GitHub Forks 1.8K
Stacks 7	Stacks 1.6K
Followers 25	Followers 55
Votes 0	Votes 1
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 1 Lightweight
Integrations
Serverless Yarn AWS Lambda	JavaScript Node.js Browserify HTML5

What are some alternatives to Serverless Chrome, jsdom?

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.

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.

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.

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.

CasperJS

CasperJS is a browser navigation scripting & testing utility written in Javascript for PhantomJS or SlimerJS.

Splash

It is a headless browser that executes JavaScript for people crawling websites. It is open source and fully integrated with Scrapy and Portia. You can also use its API to integrate with any project that needs to render JavaScript pages.

SlimerJS

It allows you to manipulate a web page with an external Javascript script: opening a webpage, clicking on links, modifying the content... It is useful to do functional tests, page automation, network monitoring, screen capture etc.