A self-contained Docker image to run BackstopJS with no external dependencies.
Visual Regression Testing with BackstopJS in a Docker container
In September 2017 this image has been merged into BackstopJS project.
Use backstopjs/backstopjs
instead of docksal/backstopjs
going forward.
Post issues and feature requests to https://github.com/garris/BackstopJS
Features:
- BackstopJS 3.x
- PhantomJS
- SlimerJS (with Firefox ESR)
- CasperJS
- Chromium
docksal/backstopjs:2
- BackstopJS 2.x (legacy)docksal/backstopjs
(docksal/backstopjs:3
) - BackstopJS 3 with Chrome Headless support
Use this image as if you were using a binary.
Working directory is expected to be mounted at /src
in the container.
$ docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/src docksal/backstopjs --version
BackstopJS v3.0.25
You can also add a shell alias (in .bashrc
, .zshrc
, etc.) for convenience.
alias backstop='docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/src docksal/backstopjs "$@"'
Restart your shell or open a new one, then
$ backstopjs --version
BackstopJS v3.0.25
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/src docksal/backstopjs init
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/src docksal/backstopjs reference
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/src docksal/backstopjs test
By default BackstopJS is using Headless Chrome to take screenshots.
You can also use PhantomJS or SlimerJS/Firefox by setting "engine": "phantomjs"
or "engine": "slimerjs"
respectively
in backstop.json
.
Chrome, PhantomJS, SlimerJS and Firefox ESR (extended support release) are pre-installed in the container.
backstop openReport
is not (yet) supported.
You will need a running webserver to view HTML reports generated by BackstopJS.
When running SlimerJS, the user you are running the container as must have a home directory in order for Slimer
to start properly. You can work around this by setting the HOME
variable:
docker run --rm --user 1000 -e HOME=/tmp/home docksal/backstopjs test
The following command will start a bash session in the container.
docker run --rm -v $(pwd):/src -it --entrypoint=bash docksal/backstopjs