phantomjs-server


PhantomJS Server
=======

Use PhantomJS as a drop-in replacement for your Selenium Standalone server.

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This is just a simple script to start a PhantomJS webdriver instead of the Selenium standalone server.

The server.address() works the same way as the selenium-webdriver's version, by responding with a promise that will eventually resolve to the localhost address of PhantomJS.

PhantomJS is 1.9.2-6 as this is, at the time of writing, the last working version on Mac OS X.

$3

To start a PhantomJS server before running your test scripts, you can create a file that is called pretest like this:

package.json
``
{
...
"devDependencies": {
...
"selenium-webdriver": "~2.39.0",
"phantomjs-server": "1.9.2"
},
"scripts": {
...
"pretest": "node start-phantomjs.js",
"posttest": "node stop-phantomjs.js",
}
}
`

start-phantomjs.js
`
var phantomjs = require('phantomjs-server');
phantomjs.start().then(function() {
process.exit(0);
});
`

stop-phantomjs.js
`
require('child_process').exec(process.platform === 'win32' ? 'taskkill /F /IM phantomjs.exe /T' : 'killall phantomjs',
function (error, stdout, stderr) {
console.log(stdout);
});
`




$3

Assuming a Selenium testing script looking something like this:
`
var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');

var SeleniumServer = require('selenium-webdriver/remote').SeleniumServer;
var server = new SeleniumServer('bin/selenium-server-standalone.jar', { port: 4444 });
server.start();

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
usingServer(server.address()).
withCapabilities({ "browserName": "firefox" }).
build();
`

You only need to replace this:
`
var SeleniumServer = require('selenium-webdriver/remote').SeleniumServer;
var server = new SeleniumServer('bin/selenium-server-standalone.jar', { port: 4444 });
server.start();
`

With this:
`
var phantom = require('phantomjs-server');
phantom.start();
`

So the final script looks like:

`
var webdriver = require('selenium-webdriver');

var phantom = require('phantomjs-server');
phantom.start();

var driver = new webdriver.Builder().
usingServer(phantom.address()). // This part is important!
withCapabilities({ "browserName": "phantomjs" }).
build();
``

$3

If the PhantomJS server won't start, it is probably because you have these 2 files:

* /usr/local/lib/libssl.0.9.8.dylib
* /usr/local/lib/libssl.dylib

Move them to something like:

* /usr/local/lib/_libssl.0.9.8.dylib
* /usr/local/lib/_libssl.dylib

And you should be good to go!