Unix swiss army knife for headless browser JavaScript

Re:Unix swiss army knife for headless browser JavaScript by curiously on Sunday April 19, 2015 @10:10PM (#9405783)

this reminds me of the time they removed the vulcan cannon during the start of vietnam war because they thought the days of dog fighting was over because of missiles.

Then their jets started falling left and right and they ended up installing it back again.

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Re:Unix swiss army knife for headless browser JavaScript by MichaelGG on Sunday April 19, 2015 @11:27PM (#9406013)

I don't feel that's a proper analogy. We save a ton of time by only doing a single layout/rendering system. If a page pulls in 5+ different assets to render, doing it on the server means we gotta come up with a lot more logic to get it done on the client side. And what better way than to just run a browser to get it all done. It's like the ultimate server-side renderer framework.

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