puppeteer-lottie

Yes, you're right to be worried. It's really not great fit for micro interactions (`like/unlike` buttons etc.). If you're animating a spinner, then that animation will probably take more resources and be more fragile than the thing you're showing the spinner for. GIF is still probably worse, though, I wouldn't do that. Your best bet is to try to do what I hinted and want to try at some point: extract frames from the animation as svg, put it into a sprite img (and run svgo on it) and then animate that sprite with background-position or css transform. Extracting the frames can be done with puppeteer, there's a tool for that https://github.com/transitive-bullshit/puppeteer-lottie, it can output video or gif, but I'm not sure if it can do the whole sprite thing, yet. You might need to do that manually. [edit]: I'm assuming you talk about the