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Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda

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Re: Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda

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Post by schickling »

I'm really excited to finally open-source Chromeless. We've used NightmareJS and similar tools before to run integration tests but these basically added ~20min to each build. With Chromeless we were able to reduce this time to under a minute!

Here is btw a demo playground to try it out: https://chromeless.netlify.com/

Let me know if you have any questions :)

Re: Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda

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Post by shortj »

This would have been awesome to have back when I was heavy in to the UI test automation game. Our best option at that point was a spot instance EC2 fleet and analyzing commits to determine which tests would be the most valuable to run. It's awesome being able to easily run hundreds or thousands of tests in parallel, completely segmented, and pay only on demand. A fantastic use of AWS Lambda! It suddenly becomes reasonable to do full integration tests on every merge request, or even commit, and get feedback to the developer in seconds.

Re: Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda

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Post by schickling »

shortj wrote: post #4

This would have been awesome to have back when I was heavy in to the UI test automation game. Our best option at that point was a spot instance EC2 fleet and analyzing commits to determine which tests would be the most valuable to run. It's awesome being able to easily run hundreds or thousands of tests in parallel, completely segmented, and pay only on demand. A fantastic use of AWS Lambda! It suddenly becomes reaso…

This sounds very familiar. I'm amazed every time to see what serverless infrastructure can be used for!

Re: Show HN: Chromeless – Headless Chrome Automation on AWS Lambda

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Post by schickling »

jotto wrote: post #5

(Shameless promoting): for an API version of the prerendering functionality, with no warm-up latency, we're running a large cluster of Chrome headless instances here: https://www.prerender.cloud/

Sounds like a great service and very useful for frontend developers.

We've built something similar internally and will shortly migrate it to Chromeless. We basically use it to pre-render our websites and docs: https://github.com/graphcool/prep

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