8 engineers on Hacker News describe using PhantomJS first-hand: 1 endorse it, 1 regret it, 2 are mixed.
“it depends on phantomjs which uses an ancient version of webkit”
regret · production · 0XAFFE · 2017-06-22 · source ↗ · wrong label?“PhantomJS enabled us at the time to bootstrap a big project at work ... eventually we moved to WKHTMLTOPDF which is much less hungry with resources”
mixed · production · Globz · 2017-04-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?“Phantom is fine and good for headless testing (hells we use it for quite a bit else) but seriously it is not a solution for a real load.”
mixed · production · lennel · 2013-11-12 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We switched over the Selenium webdriver for PhantomJS and found it to be much more stable and fast.”
endorse · personal · killahpriest · 2013-05-21 · source ↗ · wrong label?“a nodejs service which received static html and rendered it to pdf using phantomjs.”
neutral · production · dmkolobov · 2025-05-18 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run our suite in Firefox, Chrome and PhantomJS as part of the CI setup.”
neutral · production · alistairjcbrown · 2015-11-24 · source ↗ · wrong label?“We run in-house data extraction structure very similar to this (spiders, phantomJS, ocr, anonymous proxies, etc)”
neutral · production · ivanhoe · 2014-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?“we started with jsdom but now use phantomjs for these courses. It makes everything more reliable”
neutral · production · rubymaverick · 2012-12-06 · source ↗ · wrong label?