fixing broken puppeteer providers in docker caused by alpine chromium 146 crashing / switched to debian slim with puppeteer's own chrome for testing / dropped 2-stage build / run as non-root / purge build tools after install, improve docker-test.sh to verify it all works. That's it. ;)

Dockerfile

@@ -1,70 +1,59 @@
-# ================================
+FROM node:22-slim
-# Stage 1: Build stage
-# ================================
-FROM node:22-alpine AS builder
 
-WORKDIR /build
+# System deps for Chrome for Testing + build tools for native modules (better-sqlite3)
-
+# Must run as root
-# Install build dependencies needed for native modules (better-sqlite3)
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
-RUN apk add --no-cache python3 make g++
+    curl ca-certificates fonts-liberation libasound2 \
-
+    libatk-bridge2.0-0 libatk1.0-0 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 \
-# Copy package files first for better layer caching
+    libdrm2 libgbm1 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libnss3 \
-COPY package.json yarn.lock ./
+    libx11-xcb1 libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxrandr2 xdg-utils \
-
+    python3 make g++ \
-# Install all dependencies (including devDependencies for building)
+  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/* \
-RUN yarn config set network-timeout 600000 \
+  && mkdir -p /db /conf /fredy \
-  && yarn --frozen-lockfile
+  && chown node:node /db /conf /fredy
-
-# Copy source files needed for build
-COPY index.html vite.config.js ./
-COPY ui ./ui
-COPY lib ./lib
-
-# Build frontend assets
-RUN yarn build:frontend
-
-# ================================
-# Stage 2: Production stage
-# ================================
-FROM node:22-alpine
 
 WORKDIR /fredy
 
-# Install Chromium and curl (for healthcheck)
+# Everything from here runs as the built-in non-root node user (UID 1000)
-# Using Alpine's chromium package which is much smaller
+USER node
-RUN apk add --no-cache chromium curl
 
 ENV NODE_ENV=production \
-    IS_DOCKER=true \
+    IS_DOCKER=true
-    PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true \
-    PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=/usr/bin/chromium-browser
 
-# Install build dependencies for native modules, then remove them after yarn install
+COPY --chown=node:node package.json yarn.lock ./
-COPY package.json yarn.lock ./
 
-RUN apk add --no-cache --virtual .build-deps python3 make g++ \
+# Install dependencies and purge build tools (only needed to compile better-sqlite3)
-  && yarn config set network-timeout 600000 \
+RUN yarn config set network-timeout 600000 \
-  && yarn --frozen-lockfile --production \
+  && yarn --frozen-lockfile \
-  && yarn cache clean \
+  && yarn cache clean
-  && apk del .build-deps
 
-# Copy built frontend from builder stage
+# Install Chrome for Testing in a separate layer — it's ~150MB and rarely changes,
-COPY --from=builder /build/ui/public ./ui/public
+# so keeping it separate avoids re-downloading on every code/dependency change
+RUN npx puppeteer browsers install chrome
 
-# Copy application source (only what's needed at runtime)
+# Purge build tools now that native modules are compiled
-COPY index.js ./
+USER root
-COPY index.html ./
+RUN apt-get purge -y python3 make g++ \
-COPY lib ./lib
+  && apt-get autoremove -y \
+  && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+USER node
 
-# Prepare runtime directories and symlinks for data and config
+COPY --chown=node:node index.html vite.config.js ./
-RUN mkdir -p /db /conf \
+COPY --chown=node:node ui ./ui
-  && chown 1000:1000 /db /conf \
+COPY --chown=node:node lib ./lib
-  && chmod 777 /db /conf \
+
-  && ln -s /db /fredy/db \
+RUN yarn build:frontend
+
+COPY --chown=node:node index.js ./
+
+RUN ln -s /db /fredy/db \
   && ln -s /conf /fredy/conf
 
 EXPOSE 9998
 VOLUME /db
 VOLUME /conf
 
+HEALTHCHECK --interval=30s --timeout=10s --start-period=30s --retries=3 \
+  CMD curl -f http://localhost:9998/ || exit 1
+
 CMD ["node", "index.js"]

docker-test.sh

@@ -7,12 +7,63 @@ if [ "$(docker ps -aq -f name=fredy)" ]; then
   docker rm fredy || true
 fi
 
+# On Apple Silicon, force linux/amd64 to match production CI and avoid arm64/x86_64
+# Chrome mismatch under Rosetta. On native Linux (amd64 or arm64) let Docker pick naturally. That took me fucking 1 hour to figure out.
+PLATFORM=""
+if [ "$(uname -m)" = "arm64" ] && [ "$(uname -s)" = "Darwin" ]; then
+  PLATFORM="linux/amd64"
+fi
+
 # Build image from local Dockerfile, forcing a fresh build without cache
-docker build --no-cache -t fredy:local .
+if [ -n "$PLATFORM" ]; then
+  docker build --no-cache --platform "$PLATFORM" -t fredy:local .
+else
+  docker build --no-cache -t fredy:local .
+fi
 
 # Run container with volumes and port mapping
-docker run -d --name fredy \
+if [ -n "$PLATFORM" ]; then
-  -v fredy_conf:/conf \
+  docker run -d --name fredy --platform "$PLATFORM" -v fredy_conf:/conf -v fredy_db:/db -p 9998:9998 fredy:local
-  -v fredy_db:/db \
+else
-  -p 9998:9998 \
+  docker run -d --name fredy -v fredy_conf:/conf -v fredy_db:/db -p 9998:9998 fredy:local
-  fredy:local
+fi
+
+echo "Waiting for app to be ready..."
+for i in $(seq 1 30); do
+  if docker exec fredy curl -sf http://localhost:9998/ > /dev/null 2>&1; then
+    echo "App is up"
+    break
+  fi
+  if [ "$i" = "30" ]; then
+    echo "App did not come up in time"
+    docker logs fredy
+    exit 1
+  fi
+  sleep 2
+done
+
+# Verify the process is NOT running as root
+RUNNING_USER=$(docker exec fredy id -u)
+if [ "$RUNNING_USER" = "0" ]; then
+  echo "Process is running as root!"
+  exit 1
+fi
+echo "Process runs as UID $RUNNING_USER (not root)"
+
+# Verify Chrome launches without crashing
+echo "Testing Chrome..."
+CHROME=$(docker exec fredy find /home/node/.cache/puppeteer -name chrome -type f 2>/dev/null | head -1)
+if [ -z "$CHROME" ]; then
+  echo "Chrome binary not found"
+  exit 1
+fi
+if docker exec fredy "$CHROME" --headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --dump-dom https://example.com 2>&1 | grep -q "<html"; then
+  echo "Chrome works"
+else
+  echo "Chrome failed to render a page"
+  docker exec fredy "$CHROME" --headless --no-sandbox --disable-gpu --dump-dom https://example.com 2>&1 | head -20
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+echo ""
+echo "All checks passed."

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "fredy",
-  "version": "20.0.6",
+  "version": "20.0.7",
   "description": "[F]ind [R]eal [E]states [d]amn eas[y].",
   "scripts": {
     "prepare": "husky",