Motivation
Move the fucking browser interactions out of javascript development cycle, since Chrome is a monster eating memories.
Resources
A tutorial: jsdom + jQuery in 5 lines with node.js
Setup
IDE
atom + atom-ternjs + script
node.js module
npm install jquery
npm install jsdom@3 // for v0.10.37
code
// see https://github.com/UncoolAJ86/node-jquery
// see https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom/tree/3.x
(function() {
'use strict';
var env = require('jsdom').env,
html =
'<html><body><h1>Hello World!</h1><p class="hello">Heya Big World!</body></html>';
// first argument can be html string, filename, or url
env(html, function(errors, window) {
console.log(errors);
var $ = require('jquery')(window);
console.log($('.hello').text());
});
}());