Test your apps with real web browsers using Symfony Panther

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Symfony Panther drives real browsers via the WebDriver protocol and implements the same API as BrowserKit, so existing Symfony functional tests and Goutte scripts run unchanged while client side JS actually executes. The demo builds a Hacker News clone, uses Maker to scaffold entities and tests, exercises AJAX comment posting and uses waitFor selectors to catch async loading and a real JS bug that reproducibly fails. Panther runs headless or visible, takes screenshots and executes custom JS, and installs with composer require symfony/panther.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 26:48Why test apps
3. 57:17Symfony project setup
4. 1:33:59Generating functional tests
5. 2:13:17Using fixtures
6. 2:20:18Live demo and conclusion

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