Using Cloudflare’s Browser Rendering APIs for Screenshots

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I’ve been a Cloudflare fan for a while now, but have mainly focused on their Workers Serverless platform. I was aware, of course, that they did a lot more, but I just haven’t had the time to really look around and explore. Recently I was doing some investigation into "url to screenshot" services and discovered that Cloudflare had this, and not only that, it’s part of a suite of browser APIs that are really freaking awesome. Cloudflare’s Browser Rendering APIs do things like: Get the HTML of a page, but after JavaScript has executed, allowing it to get dynamic HTML Render a PDF to PDF Scrape HTML via selectors Parse out content via JSON schema (I’m absolutely... more →
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Netflix.com Adopts Universal JavaScript, Drops Java From Rendering Pipeline – InfoQ.com

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Netflix.com Adopts Universal JavaScript, Drops Java From Rendering PipelineInfoQ.comDubbed "Universal JavaScript", Netflix architected their new UI renderer so that they can run it in the browser or in a node.js server. Baxter says that this technique "allows for the application to render the exact same output independent of the … JavaScript – Google News… more →
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