.ebextensions config file to load NodeJS EB instance with packages needed for Puppeteer/Chromium

chromiumpackages.config

# This is for ElasticBeanstalk with Amazon Linux 2023. For previous Linux 2 or Linux 1, see revisions for ideas
packages:
  yum:
    cups-libs: []
    libdrm: []
    libXdamage: []
    libXfixes: []
    libXrandr: []
    mesa-libgbm: []
    libxkbcommon: []
    dbus-glib: []
    libXrandr: []
    libXcursor: []
    libXinerama: []
    cairo: []
    cairo-gobject: []
    pango: []
    liberation-sans-fonts: []
    libwayland-client: []
    libwayland-cursor: []
    gtk3: []
    gdk-pixbuf2: []
    libxkbcommon: []
    libXScrnSaver: []
    libpkgconf: []
    atk: []
    at-spi2-atk: []
    at-spi2-core: []
    alsa-lib: []

commands:
  refresh-fonts:
    command: |
      fc-cache-64 -f -v

We recently moved to Amazon Linux 2 and the upgrade had some changes for this config. (Revision 4)
Available Yum libs made it all a lot easier. I added the comments (prefixed with #) live in this gist, so if they break, remove them!
Linux (1) ideas are in the prior revisions.

You are my hero! Thank you so much!

This worked with Node.js 16 running on 64bit Amazon Linux 2/5.5.6 🎉

Thank you!!

I found an easy way on Amazon Linux 2 is just:

packages: 
  yum:
    google-chrome-stable: []

This will install all required libraries with google chrome, even if you use the local installation from puppeteer afterwards.

Additionally I needed to configure the cache directory of puppeteer to a local directory, because how staging of new versions works on Elastic Beanstalk. Just put a .puppeteerrc.cjs in your project root:

const {join} = require('path');

/**
 * @type {import("puppeteer").Configuration}
 */
module.exports = {
  // Changes the cache location for Puppeteer.
  cacheDirectory: join(__dirname, '.cache', 'puppeteer'),
};

@falco467 I'm facing the similar issue with Playwright package which cannot use due to dependencies issue. Please see my latest log which I raised in StackOverflow and if you can point me what I'm doing wrong. Thanks
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74696909/error-in-aws-elastic-beanstalk-for-using-playwrightcrawler-package

And how do you install puppeter (in my case playwright)?

I tried with command

npx playwright install chromium but it throws error

@wojtekKrol
Exactly as @SFaraji wrote in his StackOverflow answer. You need to install playwright with EBCONFIG file:

 command: PLAYWRIGHT_BROWSERS_PATH=$HOME/pw-browsers npx playwright install