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Hello,
In my laravel 5.8 app I managed to generate file with spatie/browsershot and download it ok, but to run it locally at my Ubuntu 18 I had ro run
npm i puppeteer@next
as I got error :
Error Output: ================ module.js:549 throw err; ^ Error: Cannot find module 'puppeteer' at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15) at Function.Module._load
This decision I found at https://github.com/GoogleChrome/puppeteer/issues/2119 branch.
But after I installed the app at my server I got error :
The command "PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin NODE_PATH=`npm root -g` node '/var/www/html/votes/vendor/spatie/browsershot/src/../bin/browser.js' '{"url":"file:\/\/\/tmp\/0046339001562826751\/index.html","action":"pdf","options":{"path":"generate_profile_card_ohTcbPxIiVNo5CUp8nIDJHbO8mKU2MhwCq4UFIbB_filename.pdf","args":[],"viewport":{"width":800,"height":600},"displayHeaderFooter":false,"printBackground":true}}'" failed. Exit Code: 1(General error) Working directory: /var/www/html/votes/public Output: ================ Error Output: ================ module.js:549 throw err; ^ Error: Cannot find module 'puppeteer' at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:547:15) at Function.Module._load (module.js:474:25) at Module.require (module.js:596:17) at require (internal/module.js:11:18) at Object.<anonymous> (/var/www/html/votes/vendor/spatie/browsershot/bin/browser.js:1:81) at Module._compile (module.js:652:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:663:10) at Module.load (module.js:565:32) at tryModuleLoad (module.js:505:12) at Function.Module._load (module.js:497:3)
Installing laravel app on server I need to run
composer install
But not
npm install
Yes ?
But I have to include /public/js/app.js file in /layouts/frontend.blade.php of my template. I suppose that puppeteer must be in this file?
my composer.json :
{
"name": "laravel/laravel",
"description": "The Laravel Framework.",
"keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
"license": "MIT",
"type": "project",
"require": {
"php": "^7.1.3",
"alaouy/youtube": "^2.2",
"aloha/twilio": "^4.0",
"arrilot/laravel-widgets": "^3.12",
"cviebrock/eloquent-sluggable": "^4.5",
"davejamesmiller/laravel-breadcrumbs": "5.x",
"doctrine/dbal": "^2.8",
"elasticquent/elasticquent": "dev-master",
"facebook/graph-sdk": "^5.7",
"fideloper/proxy": "^4.0",
"google/apiclient": "^2.2",
"intervention/image": "^2.4",
"itsgoingd/clockwork": "^3.0",
"jrean/laravel-user-verification": "^7.0",
"laravel/framework": "5.8.*",
"laravel/socialite": "^3.2",
"laravel/tinker": "^1.0",
"laravelium/sitemap": "^3.1",
"maatwebsite/excel": "^3.1",
"mews/captcha": "^2.2",
"mews/purifier": "^2.1",
"paypal/rest-api-sdk-php": "*",
"proengsoft/laravel-jsvalidation": ">2.2.0",
"s-ichikawa/laravel-sendgrid-driver": "~2.0",
"snowfire/beautymail": "dev-master",
"socialiteproviders/instagram": "^3.0",
"spatie/browsershot": "^3.27",
"spatie/laravel-activitylog": "^3.1",
"spatie/laravel-backup": "^6.1",
"spatie/laravel-feed": "^2.1",
"spatie/laravel-image-optimizer": "^1.4",
"spatie/laravel-newsletter": "^4.2",
"spatie/laravel-sitemap": "^5.3",
"spatie/laravel-tags": "^2.1",
"spipu/html2pdf": "^5.2",
"symfony/psr-http-message-bridge": "^1.2",
"themsaid/laravel-mail-preview": "^2.0",
"unisharp/laravel-filemanager": "^1.9",
"wboyz/laravel-enum": "^0.2.1",
"willvincent/feeds": "1.1.*",
"yajra/laravel-datatables-oracle": "^9.0.0",
"zendframework/zend-diactoros": "^2.1"
},
"require-dev": {
"barryvdh/laravel-debugbar": "^3.1",
"filp/whoops": "^2.0",
"fzaninotto/faker": "^1.4",
"mockery/mockery": "^1.0",
"nunomaduro/collision": "^2.0",
"orangehill/iseed": "^2.6",
"phpunit/phpunit": "^7.0",
"xethron/migrations-generator": "^2.0"
},
"autoload": {
"classmap": [
"database/seeds",
"database/factories"
],
"psr-4": {
"App\": "app/"
}
},
"autoload-dev": {
"psr-4": {
"Tests\": "tests/"
}
},
"extra": {
"laravel": {
"dont-discover": [
]
}
},
"scripts": {
"post-root-package-install": [
"@php -r \"file_exists('.env') || copy('.env.example', '.env');\""
],
"post-create-project-cmd": [
"@php artisan key:generate"
],
"post-autoload-dump": [
"Illuminate\Foundation\ComposerScripts::postAutoloadDump",
"@php artisan package:discover"
],
"post-update-cmd": [
"php artisan vendor:publish --provider=\"Proengsoft\JsValidation\JsValidationServiceProvider\" --tag=public --force"
]
},
"config": {
"preferred-install": "dist",
"sort-packages": true,
"optimize-autoloader": true
},
"minimum-stability": "dev",
"prefer-stable": true
}
package.json:
{
"private": true,
"scripts": {
"dev": "npm run development",
"development": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
"watch": "npm run development -- --watch",
"watch-poll": "npm run watch -- --watch-poll",
"hot": "cross-env NODE_ENV=development node_modules/webpack-dev-server/bin/webpack-dev-server.js --inline --hot --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js",
"prod": "npm run production",
"production": "cross-env NODE_ENV=production node_modules/webpack/bin/webpack.js --no-progress --hide-modules --config=node_modules/laravel-mix/setup/webpack.config.js"
},
"devDependencies": {
"axios": "^0.19.0",
"bootstrap": "^4.3.1",
"cross-env": "^5.1",
"laravel-mix": "^4.0.16",
"lodash": "^4.17.11",
"popper.js": "^1.14.6",
"vue": "^2.5.7"
},
"dependencies": {
"bootstrap-colorpicker": "^3.1.2",
"datatables.net-bs": "^1.10.19",
"font-awesome": "^4.7.0",
"jquery": "^3.4.1",
"jquery-confirm": "^3.3.2",
"laravel-echo": "^1.5.2",
"mustache": "^2.3.0",
"node-sass": "^4.12.0",
"resolve-url-loader": "^2.3.1",
"sass-loader": "^7.1.0",
"vue-template-compiler": "^2.6.10"
}
}
How to fix this error on server(ubuntu 18 inder Digital Ocean) ?
Thanks!
Searching for decision I found a way of installing puppeteer with command --save option :
npm i puppeteer --save
so I removed it at first :
npm remove puppeteer
and
npm i puppeteer --save
after it. But It did not helped. Any idea how to fix it ?
It sounds like you may still need to "build" your js file for production.
Be sure to run the production command to compile your app's js file and then deploy it to the server.
npm run prod
Edit: just had a quick look at the browsershot package and checking that you have already followed the instructions to install Chrome on your server?
You hit the point! As it is web server ubuntu it has never came to my head that I had to install Chrome as ordinary package? have I to run :
sudo apt-get install google-chrome-stable
and it must fix my problems?
I would recommend that you first follow the setup instructions on https://github.com/spatie/browsershot step by step to see if it resolves the issue. It includes instructions for all the packages required on a Ubuntu server.
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