Can't locate chromium directory for puppeteer on Digital Ocean App Platform.

Hey OP or anyone else who finds this, I’ve written a NodeJS version of the Dockerfile that (it appears) has accomplished what you and I both needed.

Dockerfile https://gist.github.com/BrianVia/5826f1057e2d6c07836a2c3fc5ce4104

And the app spec portion looked like this:

name: <your-service-or-app>
region: nyc
services:
- dockerfile_path: apps/<your-app>/Dockerfile
  # this path is for an NX monorepo
  github:
    branch: main
    deploy_on_push: true
    repo: GithubUserName/repo-name
  http_port: 8080
  instance_count: 2
  instance_size_slug: professional-xs
  name: projects
  source_dir: /
  

Hi there,

Indeed with the App Platform you can not install packages directly.

What you could do instead is to use a Dockerfile and specify all of the packages and dependencies that you need in there and deploy your app that way:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/reference/dockerfile/

Hope that this helps!

Best,

Bobby