It won't build with Docker

When adding the prerender-spa-plugin to an existing app following the Vue doc : https://vuejs-templates.github.io/webpack/prerender.html or when cloning this repo’s examples, it can build both applications normally on my host (yarn 1.3.2, node 8.6.0) but not inside a container, with Docker.

I’ve tried the node:latest (9.0.0), node:carbon-alpine (8.9.0 on alpine), node:carbon and node_boron (6.11) images. I ran the build with npm (v3 and v5) and yarn (1.2.1). Nothing seems to make it work.

I also tried to give it my host’s node_modules, or fetch them inside the container, nothing helped.

Here’s the error thrown by the plugin:

[...]/node_modules/prerender-spa-plugin/lib/compile-to-html.js:82
                    if (error) throw stdout
                               ^

Full log:

yarn run v1.2.1
$ node build/build.js
(node:26) [DEP0022] DeprecationWarning: os.tmpDir() is deprecated. Use os.tmpdir() instead.

/usr/src/app/node_modules/prerender-spa-plugin/lib/compile-to-html.js:82
                    if (error) throw stdout
                               ^

error Command failed with exit code 1.

The Dockerfile is extremely simple (and works without the prerender-spa-plugin for the same app:

FROM node:carbon-alpine

WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY . .

RUN yarn && yarn build

Reproduction: Copy the above docker file and try to build the image docker build -t app .

[b12f]

This worked for us to get puppeteer running within a docker instance:

FROM node:latest

RUN apt-get install -yq gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 \
libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 \
libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 \
libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 \
ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget

[nekitk]

Solved this by using node:carbon-wheezy instead of carbon-alpine

Thanks to this discussion: https://github.com/marcbachmann/node-html-pdf/issues/233