Comparison with prior art

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Comparison with prior art

dandv opened this issue 9 years ago · comments

I'm looking for a library to generate unique CSS selectors for DOM elements in an arbitrary page (see 1, 2, 3, 4).

In case you looked at existing alternatives before coding a new one from scratch, how does this library compare with @martinsbalodis's css-selector, which started development before this one and even has almost the same name, which suggests you might have searched for it.

Riki Fridrich · Answer 1 · Sun Aug 23 2015 13:44:40 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This is an interesting question. I'll try to do a benchmark to compare various similar libraries.

Here's the list from your other issue (#3):

@martinsbalodis's css-selector
@tildeio's https://github.com/tildeio/selector-generator
@jhartikainen's https://github.com/jhartikainen/dompath (has tests)
@olivierrr's https://www.npmjs.com/package/selector-query (simple)
@rishihahs's https://www.npmjs.com/package/domtalk (simple)
@thomaspeklak's https://www.npmjs.com/package/get-query-selector (very simple)
@stevoland's https://github.com/stevoland/CSSelector.js (quite simple)
@ngs's https://www.npmjs.com/package/jquery-selectorator (jQuery)
@bimech's https://github.com/bimech/ellocate.js (jQuery)
@desmondw's snowflake for Chrome

Riki Fridrich · Answer 2 · Mon Aug 24 2015 01:37:32 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

This was fun: https://github.com/fczbkk/css-selector-generator-benchmark

Dan Dascalescu · Answer 3 · Wed Aug 26 2015 09:22:31 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

Thanks for the detailed comparison with @olivierrr's library.

Forgot to mention - Chromium's also has a cssPath library.

Dan Dascalescu · Answer 4 · Thu Aug 27 2015 01:02:29 GMT+0800 (China Standard Time)

BTW, thanks again for your work on this. I've posted an answer on this SO question, trying to create awareness that generating unique and relatively robust selectors is a non-trivial problem. The repo had 11 stars at the time.