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testcontainers
Testcontainers is a NodeJS library that supports tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container
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Copyright (c) 2018 - 2025 Cristian Greco and other authors.
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Testcontainers is a NodeJS library that supports tests, providing lightweight, throwaway instances of common databases, Selenium web browsers, or anything else that can run in a Docker container
The npm package testcontainers receives a total of 871,087 weekly downloads. As such, testcontainers popularity was classified as popular.
We found that testcontainers demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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