I love the web. The web should allow anyone to access any experience that they need without the need for native install or content walled garden.
I love Puppeteer - it lets me play around with the ideas of The Headless Web - that is running the web in a browser without a visible browser and even build tools like DOM-curl (Curl that runs JavaScript). Specifically I love scripting the browser to scrape, manipulate and interact with pages. One demo I wanted to make was inspired by Ire's Capturing 422 live images post where she ran a puppeteer script that would navigate to many pages and take a screenshot.
Being able to run a browser on a server is one of the most powerful things to hit the web.
There are lots of things happening on the web, and this is just a small list of what excites me.
It's possible in 3 simple steps
Welcome to the world of the headless web and a massive fudge
As anyone who works for a US based company but lives in the UK knows, Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of the year. It is that point in the year when we can actually get work done without a barrage of emails hitting us in the morning and in the evening. This Thanksgiving free-time I wanted to knock a project off my to-do list that had been sitting around for a while: a generic web-push web-hook end point.
Do we need a browser in the future?
TL;DR - Went well. Lots to learn.
What are the properties that make the web the web? How can we keep differentiating from native to stay relevant in a mobile world?