Web Unleashed 2016

2016-10-03 00:00:00 2016-10-05 00:00:00 America/Toronto Web Unleashed 2016 If you're a front-end developer, or aspire to be one, then you know how quickly the space changes. By attending Web Unleashed, you will get up-to-date on the skills to push you ahead in your career. Toronto FITC Toronto

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Friendly Ghost Stories: Using CasperJS to Automate the Web

October 3 2016, 4:15 - 5:00pm Room: 803A

Front-End
Intermediate
JavaScript

Overview

Using a ‘headless’ browser such as PhantomJS allows for lots of different opportunities in interacting with the web. Users can programmatically query and scrape data, monitor network activity, capture screenshots and perform front-end testing of websites.  This talk will introduce CasperJS, a navigation scripting and testing utility for PhantomJS. It makes using PhantomJS much easier and less error prone. We will learn about the kind of tools that can be created with this technology and walk through creation of basic navigation script to give you a solid idea about how to utilize it in your own workflow.

Objective

Sharing with the audience the vast capabilities of this easy to learn toolset.

Assumed Audience Knowledge

Javascript, Command Line

Five Things Audience Members Will Learn

  1. Use cases for headless browsers
  2. Core ideas involved in them
  3. How a headless browser can help their front-end development workflow
  4. Basic workings of CasperJS
  5. To write a simple navigation script