The good old PhantomJS times are over. The project is not maintained anymore and it is recommended to switch over to Chrome headless. Just run a local Selenium standalone server:
$ java -jar Sites/selenium-server-standalone-3.4.0.jarand run a test with the config below. This is tested with Mac OS X and Windows 10.
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| describe('runs in headless Chrome', () => { | |
| it('opens website without browser window', () => { | |
| browser.url("http://webdriver.io") | |
| console.log(browser.getTitle()) | |
| }) | |
| }); |
| var readline = require('readline') | |
| var hasTriggered = false | |
| exports.config = { | |
| specs: ['./test.spec.js'], | |
| capabilities: [{ | |
| browserName: 'chrome', | |
| chromeOptions: { | |
| // run in headless mode | |
| args: ['--headless'], | |
| // point to your Canary version as it is only supported there | |
| binary: '/Applications/Google Chrome Canary.app/Contents/MacOS/Google Chrome Canary' | |
| } | |
| }], | |
| framework: 'mocha', | |
| mochaOpts: { | |
| timeout: 10000 | |
| } | |
| } |
sorry 59?
https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome
"Headless Chrome is shipping in Chrome 59. It's a way to run the Chrome browser in a ..."
but only for chrome 49?