Setup Electron with Nightmare on Cloud9 for testing

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Hi folks,
I’ve installed Nightmare package from NPM for testing and automation which is based on Electron.
Now there is an issue with runnging Electron without gui I think because Cloud9 workspace doesn’t support this feature.

So, my json package:

{
  "scripts": {
    "start": "DEBUG=nightmare babel-node ./main.js"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "babel-cli": "6.18.0",
    "babel-preset-modern-node": "3.2.0",
    "babel-preset-stage-0": "6.16.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "nightmare": "2.10.0"
  },
  "babel": {
    "presets": [
      [
        "modern-node",
        { "version": "6.0" }
      ],
      "stage-0"
    ]
  }
}

It is not necessary to include Electron package because Nightmare has dependencies for it.

Now when Nightmare package installed I’am trying to run basic script for testing if it works (main.js):

import Nightmare from 'nightmare';
const nightmare = Nightmare({ show: false });

nightmare
  .goto('https://duckduckgo.com')
  .type('#search_form_input_homepage', 'github nightmare')
  .click('#search_button_homepage')
  .wait('#r1-0 a.result__a')
  .evaluate(() => document.querySelector('#r1-0 a.result__a').href)
  .end()
  .then(console.log)
  .catch((error) => {
    console.error('Search failed:', error);
  });

As a result it throws an arror:

$ npm start

> @ start /home/ubuntu/workspace/nm
> DEBUG=nightmare babel-node ./main.js

  nightmare queuing process start +0ms
  nightmare queueing action "goto" for https://duckduckgo.com +4ms
  nightmare queueing action "type" +1ms
  nightmare queueing action "click" +1ms
  nightmare queueing action "wait" +0ms
  nightmare queueing action "evaluate" +0ms
  nightmare running +0ms
  nightmare electron child process exited with code 1: general error - you may need xvfb +92ms
  nightmare electron child process not started yet, skipping kill. +2ms

I’am pretty new to this stuff and tried as I can but now I’am stuck. Really want to use this package. I think there is a simple solution, may be I should configure Electron somehow to run without GUI or as a node process but I don’t know how.

Any advice will be appreciated, thanks!