Getting headless Chrome to run on AWS Lambda Node

4 years ago

Today I needed to update a couple Lambda functions from the Node 8 runtime to use the Node 10.x runtime. These functions required headless Chrome because they are used to take screenshots. Unfortunately, moving from the Node 8 runtime to 10x runtime is not a simple as it sounds, because AWS have decided to change the Linux environment which now excludes some files that Chromium requires to run.

As a reminder to myself, and for anyone else who might find it useful, I thought I’d document my setup here in a blog post. This post will assume you have the Serverless CLI set up and successfully deploying to AWS.

Getting WebSockets working with Node, Socket.io and Elastic Beanstalk

6 years ago

This is something that took me nearly a year to get working. Not full time obviously, but every now and then I would make another attempt at getting it working after the trauma of the previous attempt had faded. None of the examples that people had provided worked for me, and some were out dated and no longer applied. And of course the AWS documentation provided no help whatsoever.