assaf/zombie

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5625 stars · 507 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-29, confidence not recorded

Zombie.js is a lightweight Node.js framework for testing client-side JavaScript and full-stack web applications in a simulated headless browser environment, without launching a real browser. It provides a Browser API for visiting pages, filling forms, pressing buttons, and asserting on DOM content, and works with test frameworks like Mocha.

Use cases

• test full-stack web apps without a real browser
• simulate user signup and form submission flows in tests
• run fast headless integration tests for client-side JavaScript
• assert on page titles and DOM text in acceptance tests
• test AJAX-driven pages in a simulated DOM environment

When to choose

• you want fast headless browser-like tests without Selenium or a real browser
• you're testing server-rendered or lightly-scripted pages in Node.js
• you need a simple DSL for visit/fill/pressButton test flows

When to avoid

• you need to test modern SPAs with complex JavaScript or real rendering (use Playwright or Puppeteer)
• you need to crawl untrusted web pages (explicitly unsafe per the docs)
• you need actively maintained tooling with current browser engine fidelity

Facets

library · maturity maintenance

testing e2e-testing http-client testing web-development developer-tools headless-browser browser-simulation tdd bdd dom-testing integration-testing nodejs javascript

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