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Comment by zabil | Hacker News Reader

This looks great.

I also want to shamelessly plug something similar I am working on, Taiko, it uses javascript and comes with a REPL that generates scripts like.

  await openBrowser();
  await goto("http://todomvc.com/examples/react/#/");
  await write("automate with taiko");
  await press("Enter");
  await click(checkBox(near("automate with taiko")));

The reason we use a javascript is familiarity, IDE support and use of existing node js libraries for testing.

For anyone who's interested

https://github.com/getgauge/taiko

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FYI to avoid all those awaits and make it chainable you can wrap it in a Proxy.

https://github.com/kozhevnikov/proxymise

Or ppipe, if you want more features (I'm the author):

https://github.com/egeozcan/ppipe

Completely irrelevant. Something I tried for front end frameworks

https://github.com/imvetri/ui-editor

I was very impressed by this! Great minds think alike. Would love more feedback if you have any.

For sure!

Here are a few things we learned after getting feedback from users.

  * Minimise or better remove all pre-requisites npm install should bring in everything.
  * Talk directly to the browser using the Chrome DevTools protocol it's not that hard and is now supported by firefox. 
  * Play well with others in a language ecosystem for example if javascript, test runners like gauge, jest, mocha and assertion libraries like chai etc do not build these capabilities.
  * Run well in headless environments.

All the best!

Much obliged! Thanks for taking the time to respond.

Helium author here. Thank you for mentioning us as an inspiration!

Big fans. Thanks for creating Helium!

Your sample code looks like a puppeteer script.

Close, but Taiko has a flat API. For reference here's a script in puppeteer

  const browser = await puppeteer.launch();
  const page = await browser.newPage();
  await page.goto('https://example.com');
  await page.screenshot({path: 'example.png'});

  await browser.close();

and the same thing in Taiko

  await openBrowser()
  await goto('https://example.com');
  await screenshot({path: 'example.png'});
  await closeBrowser();

so I can't work on multiple pages in parallel?

It seems that way.

You can open tabs, incognito windows and switch back and forth

Is the tab switching synchronous? If not then I couldn't do it in parallel without inadvertently hitting the wrong tab.

If it is then its no better than using a page handle (as a handle would be required)

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