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Stay aware of electron chromium update to offer --headless w/o xvfb#22

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Chromium ships with a --headless starting in version 59. Electron 1.8.1 (in pre-release as of 2017/10/11) ships with Chromium 59. So our days of having to use xvfb might be numbered 馃帀

But, this won't happen now. I tried electron@1.8.1 in this gist, but looks like the --headless option (and additional required flags) aren't compatible with WebGL. If your interested, pull down that gist and run npm start -- gl3d_bunny - you should see electron hanging and failing to generate an image. In contrast, for regular SVG graphs e.g. npm start -- 10, headless seems to work ok.

See electron/electron#228 for more info.

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