Is Puppeteer better than Selenium?
In a professional tone: When I first started coding, I used Selenium to learn how to automate web browsers. It’s a great tool for beginners and newbies to test-driven development (TDD). However, with time, it became clear that the language was a bit primitive and limited. I started looking for alternatives, and found Puppeteer: a Node.js library that’s part of Google Chrome’s WebDriver project. Although it was officially marked as beta at the time, its API looked promising, its documentation was better than Selenium’s, and it was being actively developed. So I decided to give it a try.
First Impressions
Puppeteer is written in Node.js, which means you have to install the library before you can use it—unlike Selenium, which is available in most platforms’ package managers and can be used right away after installing those packages. Although Node itself comes bundled with npm (Node Package Manager), Puppeteer doesn’t come bundled with anything. You’ll have to download both Node and npm and make sure they’re up-to-date before you can use Puppeteer.