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Troubleshooting and help
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I gave up, and decided to try using a Dockerfile to build instead.
That seems to have worked - I can see it properly installing the browsers and system dependencies for Playwright during the build.

However, Playwright itself hangs at its own launch/browser launch:

import { chromium } from "playwright";

export async function scrapeWithPlaywright(url) {
  console.log("Playwright initiated...");
  const browser = await chromium.launch({
    channel: "chromium",
    headless: true,  // Ensure headless mode
    args: ["--no-sandbox", "--disable-setuid-sandbox"],  // Fix permissions inside Docker
  });
  const page = await browser.newPage();

  console.log(`Playwrighting to ${url}...`);

It never reaches the second console.log, so clearly it is having trouble launching Chrome.

For reference, my Dockerfile is this:

FROM node:20-bookworm

# Set working directory inside container
WORKDIR /app

# Copy package.json and package-lock.json separately for better caching
COPY package*.json ./

# Install dependencies
RUN npm install

# Copy all remaining files
COPY . .

# Install Playwright dependencies
RUN npx -y playwright@1.50.1 install --with-deps chromium

# Expose 8000
EXPOSE 8000

# Start the app
CMD ["node", "app.js"]

But I don’t think that’s the problem - I am guessing it’s some kind of koyeb/docker/arguments issue