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Are there any headless browsers for node.js that support dumping a rendered page out to a file? I know phantomjs supports rendering to a file, but it doesn't run on node.js. I know zombie.js is a node.js headless browser, but it doesn't support rendering to a file.
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JSDOM is a JavaScript based headless browser that can be used to create a realistic testing environment. Since enzyme's mount API requires a DOM, JSDOM is required in order to use mount if you are not already in a browser environment (ie, a Node environment).
Puppeteer is a Node library which provides a high-level API to control headless Chrome or Chromium over the DevTools Protocol.
Puppeteer is a package that renders pages using a headless Chrome instance, executing the JavaScript within the page.
I doubt you will find anything that is going to work as well as phantomjs. I would just treat the rendering as an async backend process and execute phantom in a subprocess from your main node.js process and call it a day. Rendering a web page is HARD, and since phantom is based on WebKit, it can actually do it. I don't think there will ever be a node library that can render a web page to a graphic file that isn't built upon an existing browser rendering engine. But maybe one day phantomjs will integrate more seamlessly with node.
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