PhantomJS

Explaining PhantomJS and why it's useful to web developers.

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1. Presented by Art Kay PhantomJS
2. Who am I? !   Arthur Kay !   Solutions Engineer at Sencha, Inc. !   Longtime ExtJS fanatic !   Web developer for 10+ years !   www.akawebdesign.com !   @arthurakay !   Want a cool job? Sencha is hiring!
3. Sencha Chicago User Group !   Looking for: !   Speakers !   Ideas !   Giveaways !   Sponsors !   GET INVOLVED!
4. Agenda !   What is PhantomJS? !   API !   Examples !   Hack!
5. Don’t be scared! !   Headless WebKit browser (FAST!!!) !   JavaScript API (also CoffeeScript) !   Ideal for unit tests, site scraping, SVG rendering, network monitoring, etc. ! www.PhantomJS.org
6. API !   phantom !   exit(val) ! injectJs(file) ! WebPage !   evaluate(function() { … }) !   open(url, callback) !   render(filename) ! sendEvent(type, x, y) ! Filesystem !   list(path) ! isFile(path)
7. Examples !   Hello, World! !   Passing arguments !   Render images (screenshots) !   Webpage load speed ! PhantomLint !   Jasmine
8. Let’s Hack! !   Ideas: !   Website/server uptime monitoring tool !   Crawl filesystem for HTML files and snapshot !   Simulate mouse move/click on webpage (integration test!)
9. Questions