What is a good headless browser to run with protractor?

Question

New User here.

After hours of building my smoke and regression tests, I found out after reading many cases online that phantomjs is known to be a trouble to run with

Answer 1

Your best bet is to continue with Chrome. With a bit of work you can get it to work via a CI and in a headless manner - we do this using Jenkins and Docker Ubuntu servers which are headless.

You will need to configure Chrome to run headless using XVFB. You can start off by following the gist here https://gist.github.com/addyosmani/5336747

You state you are on a Mac so you can either run the headless tests via Docker on your machine or you could set up a second config for the CI tests.

Another resource http://tobyho.com/2015/01/09/headless-browser-testing-xvfb/