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grunt-lib-phantomjs

Grunt and PhantomJS, sitting in a tree.

Usage

The best way to understand how this lib should be used is by looking at the grunt-contrib-qunit plugin. Mainly, look at how the lib is required, how event handlers are bound and how PhantomJS is actually spawned.

Also, in the case of the grunt-contrib-qunit plugin, it's important to know that the page being loaded into PhantomJS doesn't know it will be loaded into PhantomJS, and as such doesn't have any PhantomJS->Grunt code in it. That communication code, aka. the "bridge", is dynamically injected into the html page.

An inline example

If a Grunt task looked something like this:

grunt.registerTask('mytask', 'Integrate with phantomjs.', function() {
  var phantomjs = require('grunt-lib-phantomjs').init(grunt);
  var errorCount = 0;

  // Handle any number of namespaced events like so.
  phantomjs.on('mytask.ok', function(msg) {
    grunt.log.writeln(msg);
  });

  phantomjs.on('mytask.error', function(msg) {
    errorCount++;
    grunt.log.error(msg);
  });

  // Create some kind of "all done" event.
  phantomjs.on('mytask.done', function() {
    phantomjs.halt();
  });

  // Built-in error handlers.
  phantomjs.on('fail.load', function(url) {
    phantomjs.halt();
    grunt.warn('PhantomJS unable to load URL.');
  });

  phantomjs.on('fail.timeout', function() {
    phantomjs.halt();
    grunt.warn('PhantomJS timed out.');
  });

  // This task is async.
  var done = this.async();

  // Spawn phantomjs
  phantomjs.spawn('test.html', {
    // Additional PhantomJS options.
    options: {},
    // Complete the task when done.
    done: function(err) {
      done(err || errorCount === 0);
    }
  });

});

And test.html looked something like this (note the "bridge" is hard-coded into this page and not injected):

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<script>

// Send messages to the parent PhantomJS process via alert! Good times!!
function sendMessage() {
  var args = [].slice.call(arguments);
  alert(JSON.stringify(args));
}

sendMessage('mytask.ok', 'Something worked.');
sendMessage('mytask.error', 'Something failed.');
sendMessage('mytask.done');

</script>
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>

Then running Grunt would behave something like this:

$ grunt mytask
Running "mytask" task
Something worked.
>> Something failed.
Warning: Task "mytask" failed. Use --force to continue.

Aborted due to warnings.

OS Dependencies

PhantomJS requires these dependencies On Ubuntu/Debian apt-get install libfontconfig1 fontconfig libfontconfig1-dev libfreetype6-dev

Release History

  • 2013-08-02 - v0.4.0 - /34 /18 /24 merged
  • 2013-02-28 - v0.3.0 - Use PhantomJS 1.9.0-1.
  • 2013-02-28 - v0.2.0 - Use PhantomJS 1.8.1.
  • 2012-12-21 - v0.1.0 - Use PhantomJS 1.7.0.