jsdom document.createWindow() returns empty for non-empty document

Question

jsdom document.createWindow() returns empty for non-empty document

I'm trying to follow the very short, simple setup instructions at https://github.com/tmpvar/jsdom under section "Creating a browser-like BOM/DOM/Window". Unfortunately, after the 3rd line (the .createWindow step), I do console.log(window) and it prints an empty object. There should be at least window.document there, but there isn't. It seems as though document.createWindow is acting the same as jsdom.createWindow.

Here's my code so far:

var jsdom = require('jsdom').jsdom;

document = jsdom("<html><head></head><body>hello world</body></html>");
window = document.createWindow();

console.log(window); // output: {}

console.log(window.document.innerHTML); // error, cannot read innerHTML on undefined

So, what stupid thing am I doing wrong?

FYI document is created correctly. Printing it outputs a very large object.

I am using a Mac.

javascript
node.js
jsdom

Answer 1

Problem was due to an installation error with Contextify. I'm used to developing on either Windows or *NIX and on Mac, due to *NIX terminal, assumed I would have things like Make. Problem was solved by installing Xcode with command line tools, which installs Make among other things, which solved installation error for Contexify, which resolved the overall issue.

Answer 2

var jsdom = require('jsdom').jsdom;
document = jsdom('<!doctype html><html><body>hello jsdom</body></html>');
window = document.createWindow();
console.log(window);
var txt = window.document.body.innerHTML;
console.log(txt);