npm package discovery and stats viewer.

Discover Tips

  • General search

    [free text search, go nuts!]

  • Package details

    pkg:[package-name]

  • User packages

    @[username]

Sponsor

Optimize Toolset

I’ve always been into building performant and accessible sites, but lately I’ve been taking it extremely seriously. So much so that I’ve been building a tool to help me optimize and monitor the sites that I build to make sure that I’m making an attempt to offer the best experience to those who visit them. If you’re into performant, accessible and SEO friendly sites, you might like it too! You can check it out at Optimize Toolset.

About

Hi, 👋, I’m Ryan Hefner  and I built this site for me, and you! The goal of this site was to provide an easy way for me to check the stats on my npm packages, both for prioritizing issues and updates, and to give me a little kick in the pants to keep up on stuff.

As I was building it, I realized that I was actually using the tool to build the tool, and figured I might as well put this out there and hopefully others will find it to be a fast and useful way to search and browse npm packages as I have.

If you’re interested in other things I’m working on, follow me on Twitter or check out the open source projects I’ve been publishing on GitHub.

I am also working on a Twitter bot for this site to tweet the most popular, newest, random packages from npm. Please follow that account now and it will start sending out packages soon–ish.

Open Software & Tools

This site wouldn’t be possible without the immense generosity and tireless efforts from the people who make contributions to the world and share their work via open source initiatives. Thank you 🙏

© 2025 – Pkg Stats / Ryan Hefner

headless-helper

v1.0.1

Published

A utility library for headless browser testing.

Readme

Headless Helper

Utilities for headless browser testing using puppeteer.

Headless helper is a curated collection of utilities that have been useful in my automation testing. These simple wrappers have proven to be useful to me, and I hope to you as well. Contributions are always welcome, as are bug reports & feature requests.

Installing / Getting started

To get started using headless-helper in your own project, simply install via yarn or npm:

yarn add headless-helper

In your tests you can then use headless-helper during initialization, test runs, and clean-up. Some examples:

const headlessHelper = require('headless-helper');
describe('My Awesome Acceptance Tests', () => {
	beforeEach((done) => {
		(async () => {
			try {
				await headlessHelper.getBrowser();
				done();
			} catch (err) {
				done(err);
			}
		})();
	});
	afterEach((done) => {
		(async () => {
			try {
				await headlessHelper.closeBrowser();
				done();
			} catch (err) {
				done(err);
			}
		})();
	});
	it('Should open pages and test them!', (done) => {
		(async () => {
			try {
				await headlessHelper.openPage('https://www.google.com');
				await headlessHelper.saveScreenshot('./test/screens/', 'Google-first-load');
			} catch (err) {
				done(err);
			}
		})();
	});

Developing

Here's a brief intro about what a developer must do in order to start developing the project further:

//TODO

Features

//TODO (For now, check out the inline documentation - https://github.com/BryceEWatson/headless-helper/blob/master/src/index.js )

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, please fork the repository and use a feature branch. Pull requests are warmly welcome.

Links

//TODO

Licensing

The code in this project is licensed under MIT license.