Lately I’ve added continuous integration to my blog using puppeteer for end to end testing. My main goal was to allow automatic dependency update using Dependabot.

As my CI platform, I chose Github Actions, as it is super easy to work with, and it integrates beautifully with any Github repository you already have. The whole thing only took roughly two days of intermittent work, and I think the results are quite awesome.

I do want to give a shout-out to Nick Taylor, who published his article on the subject, and laid the ground work for my efforts here, so I encourage you to read his article as well.

My tech stack is quite different though. I chose puppeteer as my end-to-end framework for several reasons. The first is that it is written and maintained by the folks behind the chrome dev tools, so I’m guaranteed a life-time support (until Chrome dies out, which is not in the near future), and it is really easy to work with.

Another reason is that at home I’m working on a windows laptop with WSL (on which I’m running zshell with oh-my-zsh), and setting up cypress is quite a bit more difficult (although in our world nothing is impossible). Both reasons led me to choose puppeteer, and so far I’m not regretting.

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