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UI Testing with Puppeteer

You're reading from   UI Testing with Puppeteer Implement end-to-end testing and browser automation using JavaScript and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800206786
Length 316 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dario Kondratiuk Dario Kondratiuk
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Preface 1. Chapter 1: Getting started with Puppeteer 2. Chapter 2: Automated Testing and Test runners FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 3: Navigating through a website 4. Chapter 4: Interacting with a page 5. Chapter 5: Waiting for elements and network calls 6. Chapter 6: Executing and Injecting JavaScript 7. Chapter 7: Generating Content with Puppeteer 8. Chapter 8: Environments emulation 9. Chapter 9: Scraping tools 10. Chapter 10: Evaluating and Improving the Performance of a Website 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Our first Puppeteer code

We first need to create a folder where our hello-puppeteer project will be located. I'm going to use a terminal, but you can use whatever you feel more comfortable with. Our project will be called hello-puppeteer:

> mkdir hello-puppeteer
> cd hello-puppeteer

We now need to initialize this brand-new node.js application. We create new applications in node.js using the npm init command. In this case, we will pass the -y argument, so it creates our app using default values:

> npm init -y
Wrote to /Users/neo/Documents/Coding/hello-puppeteer/package.json:
{
  "name": "hello-puppeteer",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  ...
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