Is it worth bundling an Electron app with Puppeteer's Chromium if the main functionality is browser automation/scraper?

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  • puppeteer

    Node.js API for Chrome

    • While Puppeteer is fantastic there are two NPM packages are available, puppeteer and puppeteer-core. Right now I am automating my previously installed Chrome browser with puppeteer-core - from the end user's point of view there's a small sacrifice - they have to set up the Chrome executable first (gotta feed an executable path to Puppeteer) which is really not a big deal and Puppeteer can automate a Google Chrome instance just fine.

  • electron-builder

    A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app with “auto update” support out of the box

    • I also would like to have an NSIS installer so if it happens to package the Chromium executable along with my app, how can I accomplish that? I am using electron-builder.

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