--- title: "#222: How To Simplify your Tooling Setup" publication: "Node Weekly" issue: 222 published_at: "2018-01-25" canonical_url: "https://nodeweekly.com/issues/222" --- #222: How To Simplify your Tooling Setup This week's Node news[Read this e-mail on the Web](http://nodeweekly.com/issues/222) Node WeeklyJanuary 25, 2018 #222 Google [Puppeteer 1.0: The Headless Chrome API for Node](https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer)Control Chrome headlessly over the DevTools protocol. 1.0 supports Chrome 65, JS/CSS code coverage API, better customization of PDFs, XPath support, and more. Jason Miller [Karmatic: Easy Automatic (Headless) Browser Testing](https://github.com/developit/karmatic)A simplified zero-configuration wrapper around Karma, Webpack, Jasmine and Puppeteer. Hive [A Set of Best Practices for JavaScript Projects](https://github.com/wearehive/project-guidelines)One company’s extensive set of guidelines covering areas like git, dependencies, environments, and API design. 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