weareathlon/chimpjs-xfvb repository overview

⁠Chrome and ChimpJS in Docker via Xvfb

This Docker image provides a way to run a real Chromium / Chrome browser headless inside of a Docker container. If you're looking for a way to run your ChimpJS tests against Chrome using Docker, this is the project you've been looking for!

⁠Use cases include:

Run Javascript tests with ChimpJS inside of Docker during local development or GitLab CI builds Run Selenium-powered browser automation tests using NodeJS inside of Docker during your CI builds and pretty much anything else where you'd want to use a real Chrome browser within a Docker container

⁠Images

• markadams/chromium-xvfb Base Docker image (Installs Debian, Chromium, Xvfb).
• markadams/chromium-xvfb-js Designed for running headless JS tests in Chromium (includes iojs (node) and npm). This image automatically runs npm install and npm test.

⁠Methodology

The key to this project and to getting Chromium / Google Chrome to work inside of a container is the wrapper script.

⁠The wrapper script does the following:###

Adds JRE and Git, so you can spin GitLab-CI Runners.