Mass Hysteria: Clients and Servers, Living Together
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A Node pattern exposes browsers as disposable servers via http over websockets, assigning subdomains and proxying requests so a browser can serve real HTTP; the core library is tiny (around 1–3k of code). Server-side scraping options include cheerio (fast HTML parsing), jsdom (in-process JS), and phantomjs for full-browser rendering. A utility called render me runs phantomjs on Heroku, returns rendered HTML for SEO, and the demos assert that it actually works.
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