md-to-pdf on alpine node box demonstrated

README.md

1. git clone https://gist.github.com/mrflip/9b8d598e5f06f210bfed9f7c4972cafa md2pdf_gist
   • or whatever the url of this page is.
2. cd md2pdf_gist
3. Run the commands in RUNME.sh: bash RUNME.sh

Once on the machine,

1. for a demo of api usage run node ./md2pdf2wtf/md2pdfDemo.js
2. to try the cli, run node ./node_modules/md-to-pdf/dist/cli.js --launch-options='{"args":["--no-sandbox", "--headless","--disable-gpu", "--disable-dev-shm-usage"]}' /home/tkapi/md2pdf2wtf/foo.md

Dockerfile-md2pdf2wtf

FROM node:18.9-alpine3.15

ENV PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true PUPPETEER_EXECUTABLE_PATH=/usr/bin/chromium-browser
RUN apk add --no-cache chromium nss freetype harfbuzz ca-certificates ttf-freefont ttf-freefont curl gnupg bash dumb-init tar git git-lfs ruby jq python3 postgresql-client nano
RUN addgroup -S tkapi && adduser -S -G tkapi tkapi

WORKDIR /home/tkapi

COPY md2pdf2wtf/ /home/tkapi/md2pdf2wtf/

RUN chown -R tkapi:tkapi /home/tkapi
RUN cd /home/tkapi/md2pdf2wtf && npm install

#
RUN  node ./md2pdf2wtf/md2pdfDemo.js
RUN  ls -l /tmp && rm /tmp/foo.pdf

# cd ~ ; git clone "https://github.com/simonhaenisch/md-to-pdf"
# cd md-to-pdf
# npm install
# node ./dist/cli.js --launch-options='{"args":["--no-sandbox", "--headless","--disable-gpu", "--disable-dev-shm-usage"]}' /home/tkapi/md2pdf2wtf/foo.md

RUN chown -R tkapi:tkapi /home/tkapi ; chown -R tkapi:tkapi /tmp/foo* ; true
USER tkapi

foo.md

HELLO THERE

I am Mark, Down for whatever.

md2pdfDemo.js

const { mdToPdf } = require('md-to-pdf');
async function doit() {
  console.log('hi');
  const pdf = await mdToPdf({
    path: '/home/tkapi/md2pdf2wtf/foo.md'
  }, {
    dest: '/tmp/foo.pdf',
    launch_options: { args: ['--no-sandbox', '--headless', '--disable-gpu', '--disable-dev-shm-usage'] },
  }).catch(console.error);
  console.log('pdf', pdf);
}
doit()

package.json

{
  "name": "foo",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "foo.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "md-to-pdf": "^5.1.0",
    "puppeteer": "^13.5.0"
  }
}

puppeteer_demo.js

const puppeteer = require('puppeteer')
async function doit() {
  const browser = await puppeteer.launch({
    headless: true, executablePath: '/usr/bin/chromium-browser',
    args: [ '--no-sandbox', '--headless','--disable-gpu', '--disable-dev-shm-usage' ]
  }).then((res) => { console.log(res) ; return res })
  console.log('bb', browser); const page = await browser.newPage();
  const gg = await page.goto("https://media.tenor.com/zrpyKEyxZGwAAAAd/fat-cat-laser-eyes.gif"); console.log('gg', gg)
  const ss = await page.screenshot({ path: "/tmp/foo.png" }); console.log('screenshot', ss)
  browser.close()
}; doit()

RUNME.sh

mkdir -p md2pdf2wtf
cp * md2pdf2wtf/
docker build -f Dockerfile-md2pdf2wtf --tag md2pdf2wtf:latest .
docker rm md2pdf2wtf
docker run -it --name md2pdf2wtf md2pdf2wtf sh