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I need to perform smoke-test of my AngularJS application on Unix, from terminal. I tried accessing application from

  • links2
  • links
  • w3m
  • elinks
  • lynx

All above-mentioned browsers show empty screen. In most of them I am able to view source using \ (backslash), so I could do basic verification if application server works properly at least.

Is there any unix text browser with javascript support? I am not looking for complete support (so application would be usable). It would be great to have ability just to view some elements of the page

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Try to install libmozjs (on debian/ubuntu aptitude install libmozjs185-dev), then (don't forget to do a sudo ldconfig first) compile from the source elinks.

wget http://elinks.or.cz/download/elinks-current-0.13.tar.bz2
tar xjvf elinks-current-0.13.tar.bz2
cd elinks-0.13*
./configure
make -j8
sudo make install

Check after ./configure if ECMAScript is flagged SpiderMonkey document scripting.

p.s. Ubuntu 14.04 here.

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You will need to install libmozjs185-dev pkg-config as explained there : link
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I guess the best way to do it would be with a headless browser such as PhantomJS http://phantomjs.org/. It has a programmable interface, so you can run a simple JS script to open your webpage, and do a simple check.

Or, you can write a more complete test using Protractor https://github.com/angular/protractor. It will give you a nice API to write tests targeting Selenium Webdriver http://www.seleniumhq.org/projects/webdriver/, that can target many browsers, including PhantomJS.

If you do a lot of AngularJS development you should take a look a Protractor anyway.

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google chrome headless browser is launched already which has way better JS support then phantomjs developers.google.com/web/updates/2017/04/headless-chrome

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