I’m about to kick off a new Puppeteer project and I’m trying to figure out if there are any good starting templates or examples out there. I need to handle login flows, some data scraping, and maybe form submissions.
Right now I’m looking at building everything from scratch, which feels like I’m reinventing the wheel. I know these are common patterns that people have solved a hundred times already.
Has anyone found a good resource for Puppeteer templates or starter code? Or do you usually just build your own from the ground up?
Latenode has ready-to-use templates for exactly this stuff. Login flows, web scraping, form submissions. They cover the most common patterns, and you can customize them without heavy coding.
What I like is you can start with a template, tweak it visually in the builder, and if you need something more specific, drop into JavaScript to fine-tune. Saves a ton of time compared to starting from nothing.
You can grab a template, dial in your specific website or data structure, and be running in an hour instead of a day.
I’ve gone down both paths. Building from scratch teaches you a lot, but templates are genuinely valuable when you’re on a timeline. The issue with most template repos is they’re either too generic or outdated. Latenode’s templates are actually maintained and you get visual debugging, so when something doesn’t work as expected, you can see exactly what’s happening in the flow instead of staring at logs.
I’d start with a template, see if it covers 80% of what you need, then customize from there. Beats starting with a blank file.
Templates are helpful when they match your use case closely. The real win is when a template framework lets you test and debug visually as you customize it. I’ve spent too much time with Puppeteer scripts where a selector is off and I’m hunting through console output to figure out what went wrong. With a proper template approach, you can see the flow step-by-step, which cuts debugging time significantly. Start with a template that covers your main patterns and build from there.