Node 6 support

[maclover7]

Per the package.json file, it looks like puppeteer only works on Node versions >=7.10.0. Would you be willing to maintain this package on the Node 6 release line, since it is the current LTS version?

[JoelEinbinder]

We don't have any plans to work with Node 6 at this point. Considering how much we rely on newer JavaScript features, supported Node 6 would be difficult for us to support. We don't want to take on the cost of a compile step or fracture our codebase.

[rwjblue]

Seems pretty surprising to specifically not support the current node LTS version.

[pavelfeldman]

Node 8 goes LTS in October 2017. It is likely that Puppeteer will go stable 1.0 right after that.

[waynerobinson]

Yeah, Node 6.10 support would help potentially being able to get this to work in AWS Lambda.

[mgcrea]

Encountering this as well, since our production services all run on LTS, risk is too high to start developing/testing on a different non-LTS version not matching production env.

Looks like it could easily be fixed with some babel plugins without changing anything, like transform-async-to-generator or a preset.

When 8.0 reaches LTS you could then consider deprecating legacy support, and dropping it a couple of months later?

[rfink]

Has anybody been able to actually get this working on lambda? The download size of puppeteer alone is larger than the max size allowed by lambda.

[brafdlog]

I was able to upload it to lambda after deleting a few of the locale files inside chrome but it would not run. Some issue with permissions. Haven't figured it out yet.

[alixaxel]

@rfink @brafdlog I managed to deploy a compiled version of Chromeless compressed with Brotli along with a trimmed down version of iltorb for decompressing it in under 34MiB ZIP package.

It also decompresses faster.

[bluepeter]

@alixaxel mind forking one of those repos, or making a new one, with your Chrome builds? ... particularly the one that clocks in at 34mb, as well as the "trimmed down" versions of related modules. or post the gist steps?

[sushant-j]

@mgcrea - Looking to run it on 6.10, but getting ReferenceError: regeneratorRuntime is not defined error. Something I am doing wrong?

[JoelEinbinder]

@sushant-j You can't use async functions in page.evaluate or equivalent methods if you are using a transpiler like babel or regenerator.