zombie.js – Tarik Billa

Scrape a webpage and navigate by clicking buttons

September 19, 2023 by Tarik

Zombie.js and Node.io run on JSDOM, hence your options are either going with JSDOM (or any equivalent wrapper), a headless browser (PhantomJS, SlimerJS) or Cheerio. JSDOM is fairly slow because it has to recreate DOM and CSSOM in Node.js. PhantomJS/SlimerJS are proper headless browsers, thus performances are ok and those are also very reliable. Cheerio … Read more

AngularJS – server-side rendering

February 16, 2023 by Tarik

Here is another solution: https://github.com/ithkuil/angular-on-server wiki for details Update from author of that repo: that was about 6 years ago (at the time of this edit). At this point, people should probably be using https://angular.io/guide/universal or just https://prerender.io/