This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan
I believe that the Headless Web is the future. Being able to offer users experiences that are delivered via the web, but without actually ever seeing a traditional browser. There are a couple of manifestations of the headless web: Notification based experiences, such as those that delivered the news of Brexit; Deep media integration allowing you to control videos and audio through controls that extend on to connected devices such as watches and Media surfaces in the host operating sysetem; or the most powerful of them all, the ability to run a web browser on the server.
I believe the introduction of Headless Chrome and the Puppeteer API can power the next generation of web businesses or commandline tools. With a browser running on the server we can fetch and execute any content that lives on the web through a simple server side set of integrations.
Puppeteer As A Service, or PuppeteerAAS, is a simple example of some of the things that you can do with the Puppeteer API. It lets you take screenshots, traces, print pdfs, server-side render dynamic pages.
The very first version of this was a bit of a hack-job, and the awesome Eric Bidelman hopped in and quickly improved the entire project and has made it what it is today.
Some interesting things: It's hosted on zeit.co using their
Docker based deployment scripts. This works really well for me, because I don't
have to think about any of the infrastructure and deploying it is as simple as
now.
One neat example is the bookmarklet I created that takes the current page that you are on, runs a deep performance trace of the page via PuppeteerAAS and then sends the results to a hosted version of Chrome DevTools.
Try it out with this page. It's very neat.
This content originally appeared on Modern Web Development with Chrome and was authored by Paul Kinlan
Paul Kinlan | Sciencx (2018-03-15T09:10:10+00:00) Puppeteer as a service. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2018/03/15/puppeteer-as-a-service/
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