Chromeless: Can Chrome be bundled?

[chris-herring]

Can Chrome be bundled or even included in a project as a binary and used from there by Chromeless?

I've been using phantomJS and I can include the binary in my project which works when deployed to Azure. So I'm looking for a similar solution that doesn't require a local install of Chrome.

[davidthewatson]

Puppeteer does this, so yes, Chromium can be bundled.

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer

[adieuadieu]

We plan to switch Chromeless to use Puppeteer behind the scenes over the coming weeks. Once done, we'd get the bundled-Chrome for free.

[trevordmiller]

@adieuadieu I'm researching the differences between Puppeteer and Chromeless and struggling to understand - what does Chromeless provide on top of just using Puppeteer directly?

[NicolasWebDev]

@trevordmiller the most important feature it provides over Puppeteer is the possibility to execute the tests on AWS lambda.

[reneses]

Hi @adieuadieu! Do you have any updates regarding the switch to Puppeteer?

[gajus]

Hi @adieuadieu! Do you have any updates regarding the switch to Puppeteer?

I wouldn't rush it. I came here looking for alternatives to Puppeteer. Puppeteer is crawling with bugs, esp. the current stable release.

[adieuadieu]

I've been working upstream on the serverless-chrome project to improve and fix some issues there which directly affect/cause a number of issues in Chromeless (fonts, 5th-invocation-crash/reliability on lambda, etc) as well as automating builds for lambda so that we can all have shiney new chromium builds for our Lambda functions without having to think about it. After that's done (soon?) I'll swing back here and give Chromeless some more love.