I am working on a Node.js application that uses html-pdf, which uses PhantomJS when creating the pdf file given the html string.
Everything works fine, but when I want to build the application in Docker, this error occurs:
ERROR: Error: spawn /usr/src/app/node_modules/phantomjs-prebuilt/lib/phantom\bin\phantomjs.exe ENOENT
events.js:291
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
Error: write EPIPE
at afterWriteDispatched (internal/stream_base_commons.js:156:25)
at writeGeneric (internal/stream_base_commons.js:147:3)
at Socket._writeGeneric (net.js:785:11)
at Socket._write (net.js:797:8)
at writeOrBuffer (_stream_writable.js:352:12)
at Socket.Writable.write (_stream_writable.js:303:10)
at PDF.PdfExec [as exec] (/usr/src/app/node_modules/html-pdf/lib/pdf.js:141:15)
at PDF.PdfToFile [as toFile] (/usr/src/app/node_modules/html-pdf/lib/pdf.js:83:8)
at /usr/src/app/src/createPDF.js:87:42
at FSReqCallback.readFileAfterClose [as oncomplete] (internal/fs/read_file_context.js:63:3)
Emitted 'error' event on Socket instance at:
at emitErrorNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:100:8)
at emitErrorCloseNT (internal/streams/destroy.js:68:3)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:80:21) {
errno: -32,
code: 'EPIPE',
syscall: 'write'
}
Here is the Dockerfile I am using:
FROM node:latest
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY . .
RUN npm install --production
RUN wget -O /tmp/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 https://bitbucket.org/ariya/phantomjs/downloads/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2
RUN mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/node_modules/phantomjs/lib/phantom/
RUN tar xvjf /tmp/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz2 -C /tmp/phantomjs
RUN mv /tmp/phantomjs/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64/* /usr/local/lib/node_modules/phantomjs/lib/phantom/
RUN rm -rf /tmp/phantomjs-2.1.1-linux-x86_64.tar.bz && rm -rf /tmp/phantomjs
EXPOSE 8080
CMD ["npm","run","serve"]
I prefer not to manually install PhantomJS but this is the only solution I found online.
I have also looked at other questions and tried to pass the path of phantom in the options but did not work.
For anyone facing this issue in the future, here is how I managed to fix this problem:
FROM node:latest
RUN mkdir -p /usr/src/app
WORKDIR /usr/src/app
COPY . .
RUN npm install --production
RUN npm install -g phantomjs --unsafe-perm
EXPOSE 8080
CMD ["npm","run","serve"]
Then pass the global path of phantomjs in the options using requireg:
var options = { phantomPath: require('requireg')('phantomjs').path }