Create binaries for Windows, macOS, and Linux

[jef]

Description

It'd be better to create binaries and distribute through Releases in GitHub rather than people download Node.js and go through npm.

Possible solution

Use pkg or something similar.

[Tim-Nosco]

I got close to a working docker build, but the chromium sandbox doesn't seem to work well in the container.

from ubuntu:20.04

env debian_frontend=noninteractive
run apt update && apt install -y git curl \
	libglib2.0-0 libnss3 libatk1.0-0 libatk-bridge2.0-0 libx11-xcb1 libxcb-dri3-0 \
	libxcomposite1 libxdamage1 libxfixes3 libcups2 libdrm2 libxrandr2 libgbm1 \
	libasound2 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libgtk3.0-cil

run curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_12.x | bash -
run apt install -y nodejs

workdir /home/runner
copy . .
run npm install

run useradd -m runner
run chown -R runner:runner /home/runner 

env SANDBOX="/home/runner/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium/linux-800071/chrome-linux/chrome_sandbox"
run chown root:root ${SANDBOX} && chmod 4755 ${SANDBOX}

user runner
ENV CHROME_DEVEL_SANDBOX=${SANDBOX}
run npm run start

[jef]

but the chromium sandbox doesn't seem to work well in the container

This was my thoughts exactly... I was gonna publish that route and then distribute easier with Docker images, but could run into more problems that way with people's OSes. *nix based machines handle these a lot easier, but could be a problem.

Also I was considering the open dependency. Not sure if it would open unless we did some volume mounting -- and I don't know if that would even work.

[mr-sour]

I did get sandboxing working in docker. I'll look into x11 forwarding but I think on not linux systems it will require an additional package. It would still be just 2 packages to install and 1 command vs actually building it. we can also set it up to just have a docker build script and then provide commands to extract the finished files out of the container and have it run that.

[itsandreramon]

This is my dockerfile, which works fine in app engine:

FROM node:14-slim

RUN apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y wget gnupg \
    && wget -q -O - https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub | apt-key add - \
    && sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/ stable main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/google.list' \
    && apt-get update \
    && apt-get install -y google-chrome-stable fonts-ipafont-gothic fonts-wqy-zenhei fonts-thai-tlwg fonts-kacst fonts-freefont-ttf libxss1 \
      --no-install-recommends \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

# Install puppeteer so it's available in the container.
RUN npm i puppeteer \
    && groupadd -r pptruser && useradd -r -g pptruser -G audio,video pptruser \
    && mkdir -p /home/pptruser/Downloads \
    && chown -R pptruser:pptruser /home/pptruser \
    && chown -R pptruser:pptruser /node_modules

# Everything else
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY package*.json ./
RUN npm install
COPY ./build .
COPY .env ../.
EXPOSE 80

# Run everything after as non-privileged user.
USER pptruser

CMD [ "node", "index.js"]