PhantomJS is abandoned, replace it with Selenium/Chrome headless

[plentz]

PhantomJS is abandoned, replace it with Selenium/Chrome headless

[benthorner]

To add to the above, here's how we're using headless Chrome with Jasmine.

# Gemfile
group :development, :test do
  gem "jasmine"
  gem "jasmine_selenium_runner", require: false
end

# spec/javascripts/support/jasmine_helper.rb
require "jasmine/runners/selenium"

Jasmine.configure do |config|
  config.runner = lambda { |formatter, jasmine_server_url|
    options = Selenium::WebDriver::Chrome::Options.new
    options.headless!

    webdriver = Selenium::WebDriver.for(:chrome, options: options)
    Jasmine::Runners::Selenium.new(formatter, jasmine_server_url, webdriver, 50)
  }
end

The jasmine_selenium_runner gem doesn't support headless chrome out of the box.

[rpbaltazar]

Is chrome headless supported in the end, or not?

[slackersoft]

The original selenium functionality never really disappeared, just pulled out of this repo. Take a look at jasmine_selenium_runner for real browser support. This gives users who are fine with PhantomJS and don't want the Selenium overhead the option, while still allowing users who want a real browser that option.

Hope this helps. Thanks for using Jasmine!

[slackersoft]

Chrome headless is supported via the jasmine selenium runner gem. I don't think we have great docs for how to use the headless part of chrome with the selenium runner, but I would be happy to review a pull request there to update the readme with steps to configure the browser.

Hope this helps. Thanks for using Jasmine!

[BrianHawley]

But be sure to keep PhantomJS support as an option, in case people have to run tests on platforms where GTK3 isn't supported, so they can't run headless Chrome/Firefox. (Yes, I'm aware that having to run tests on a platform that old is its own problem, but it happens.)

[jergarmar]

Thanks so much for the headless chrome example. Super helpful!