lightpanda-headless-browser

name	lightpanda-headless-browser
description	Ultra-light headless browser for fast, low-memory WebUI smoke runs as an alternative to Chromium when a full Playwright stack is too heavy.
source	https://github.com/lightpanda-io/browser
integration	external-binary

lightpanda-headless-browser

Use Lightpanda (a Rust/Zig-based headless browser) when you need a fast, low-footprint render of a page — e.g. CI smoke for OctoCode's WebUI on small runners, or probing that / returns a live DOM instead of a 500.

When to use

• Quick liveness check of the WebUI before running a heavier Playwright suite.
• Headless rendering on resource-constrained environments (ARM, small VMs).
• Lightweight scraping of the page's rendered DOM when full Chromium is overkill.

Requirements

• lightpanda binary on PATH, or resolved via the OctoCode tools-hub registry.

Minimal invocation

lightpanda http://127.0.0.1:10038 --timeout 5000 --dump-dom > tmp-lightpanda-dom.html

Integration notes

• Pairs well with playwright-webui-qa: use Lightpanda for the "is it alive?" gate, then Playwright for semantic assertions.
• Intentionally does not replace Playwright for interaction-heavy flows (no full CDP coverage yet).