DevTools & Headless Chrome - Render Conf 2018

DevTools and Headless Chrome - The Automation Power-Couple

In this talk we'll see what problems we can fix (or better yet, avoid) by combining two things developers love: Chrome DevTools and automating repetitive tasks.

To do this we'll use a new capability introduced in Chrome 59: running Chrome in "Headless Mode".

First off we'll show the powers of each of these tools separately. We'll use DevTools to debug other platforms like node.js and iOS, and we'll use Chrome in Headless Mode to do things like take screenshots, and to scrape sites for data.

Then we'll explore how by combining the two you can make DevTools work for you around-the-clock. We'll cover how to run tests, and set up automatic alerts to catch bugs in your code. We'll also find out how to avoid performance degradation by monitoring everything about your app (amount of unused CSS, memory footprint, etc.)

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1. DEVTOOLS & HEADLESS CHROME: THE AUTOMATION POWER-COUPLE
2. @cowchimp Yonatan Mevorach
3. Web Automation youtu.be/fsF7enQY8uI
4. ”I can’t automate this” -- no one ever (after watching this talk)
5. flic.kr/p/qnSPdN cbnd Headless Browsers
6. Chrome
7. Chrome headless
10. [ { time: "08:00", title: "Registration and breakfast" }, { time: "09:00", title: "Welcome" }, { time: "09:10", title: "A CSS Carol" }, { time: "09:40", title: "Talk details coming soon" }, { time: "10:10", title: "Common ways we break accessibility and how to avoid them" }, { time: "10:40", title: "Refreshments" }, { time: "11:10", title: "DevTools and Headless Chrome - The Automation Power-Couple" }, { time: "11:30", title: "Reducing the friction of online payments" }, { time: "11:50", title: "How to hack a web app?" }, { time: "12:20", title: "Teach Your Bundler The Users' Habits" }, { time: "12:40", title: "Lunch" }, { time: "13:40", title: "Creating IoT applications with Web Bluetooth" }, { time: "13:55", title: "Escaping the Sandbox with Puck.js" }, { time: "14:10", title: "Physical interfaces for digital applications" }, { time: "14:25", title: "Let's Get Chatty with Conversational Interface in JavaScript" }, { time: "14:55", title: "WebAssembly as cross-platform architecture?!" }, { time: "15:25", title: "Refreshments" }, { time: "15:55", title: "Data Sketches | A year of exotic data visualizations" }, { time: "16:35", title: "Serving for the win - Deploys and hosting for the rest of us" }, { time: "17:15", title: "Closing remarks" }, { time: "17:25", title: "After Party" } ]
20. Chrome DevTools
23. Chrome DevTools protocol
24. Headless API Embedding app Chrome DevTools Frontend Adapted from content by © Sami Kyöstilä, Google goo.gl/yQi9kZ WebSockets
25. Headless API Embedding app Chrome DevTools Frontend { id: 1, method: "Runtime.evaluate", params: { expression: "1 + 1" } } Adapted from content by © Sami Kyöstilä, Google goo.gl/yQi9kZ
26. Headless API Embedding app Chrome DevTools Frontend { id: 1, result: { result: { type: "number", value: 2, description: "2" }, wasThrown: false } } { id: 1, method: "Runtime.evaluate", params: { expression: "1 + 1" } } Adapted from content by © Sami Kyöstilä, Google goo.gl/yQi9kZ
27. Headless API Embedding app DevTools target DevTools client Adapted from content by © Sami Kyöstilä, Google goo.gl/yQi9kZ
28. node --inspect index.js
32. headless protocol
33. chrome --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222 https://2018.render-conf.com
34. chrome --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222 https://2018.render-conf.com
35. chrome --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222 https://2018.render-conf.com
36. chrome --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222 https://2018.render-conf.com
37. chrome --headless --remote-debugging-port=9222 https://2018.render-conf.com
48. blog.cowchimp.com @cowchimp tinyurl.com/ headless-talk