chrome-aws-lambda-layer VS chromium

This repository hosts a Community Lambda Layer so we can use it directly on our function. At this time the latest version is 24

Have you installed a Chrome / Chromium binary as a Lambda layer (e.g. this layer)? Chrome isn't included by default.

FROM laravelphp/vapor:php74 RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache curl unzip WORKDIR /opt RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/shelfio/chrome-aws-lambda-layer/raw/master/chrome_aws_lambda.zip --output chrome_aws_lambda.zip RUN unzip chrome_aws_lambda.zip -d /opt RUN rm chrome_aws_lambda.zip RUN curl -sSL https://github.com/lambci/node-custom-lambda/raw/master/v12.x/layer.zip --output node-custom-lambda.zip RUN unzip node-custom-lambda.zip -d /opt/node-custom-lambda RUN cp -avr /opt/node-custom-lambda/bin /opt/bin RUN rm node-custom-lambda.zip && rm -rf node-custom-lambda WORKDIR / COPY . /var/task

Puppeteer automates Chromium browsers (headless and non-headless), but can Chromium run in a Lambda function? Not without some great work from the community to create a Chrome build for the AWS Lambda runtime. There’s also a Lambda layer solution for this too, although I haven’t tried this approach yet. Another great feature of this package is that it runs headless when running in Lambda and non-headless when running locally - so it’s frictionless to develop, test and run your scripts.

The most crucial question was, of course, how to run Chrome on Lambda. Fortunately, much of the groundwork for running Chrome on Lambda had been laid by others. I used the @sparticuz/chromium package to run Chromium in headless mode. However, Chromium is a rather big dependency, so to speed up deployments, I created a Lambda Layer.

The package you linked seems abandoned. It was last updated in September 2021. However, In the PRs, I found a link to a package (deprecated) which links to another package -> https://github.com/Sparticuz/chromium This one looks maintained with the last commit bumping the chromium to 111