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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon segment-boneyard

Why is Nightmare called Nightmare?

Open ashleydavis opened this issue 7 years ago • 3 comments

Sorry another non-issue from me.

I'm working on a book called Data Wrangling with JavaScript and am currently writing a chapter on using Nightmare for rendering server-side visualizations and web scraping.

I was just wondering why Nightmare is called Nightmare?

And is Nightmare related (somewhere along the line) to NightmareJS?

ashleydavis avatar Mar 19 '18 22:03 ashleydavis

Guess 'Nightmare' fitted nicely in the stack of other headless testing tools, like ZombieJS or PhantomJS. Seems only likely that Zombies and Phantoms lead to Nightmares eventually :-)

Yes, SementIO/Nightmare === NightmareJS.

m0-n avatar May 19 '18 14:05 m0-n

Thanks.

One more question.

What's the difference between Nightmare and Nightmarejs on NPM? It's a bit confusing.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nightmarejs

https://www.npmjs.com/package/nightmare

ashleydavis avatar May 19 '18 22:05 ashleydavis

@ashleydavis Nightmarejs was the old name, it has been retired and replaced with just "nightmare". Notice the last published date.

justinmchase avatar May 09 '20 01:05 justinmchase