.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

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