Express build randomly stopped deploying successfully
They now always stop and time out at the same step - which is the stage shown in the screenshot. The same code was working and deploying alright last week. I just commented out an irrelevant function that unrelated to anything that's got to do deployments.
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installing puppeteer (aka installing chrome) is known to be buggy, instead I would recommend using browserless so you can skip installing chrome altogether, it's also going to result in smaller and therefore faster build, publish, and deploy times, we have a browserless template here - https://railway.app/template/0jqemX
and an example repo here, with extra information -
https://github.com/brody192/puppeteer-example
but it worked for the whole past year, i cant transition now to a different implementation
my business is already running here, I'm using puppeteer to create personalised images that get printed
it would be incredibly easy to adopt browserless, please check out the example repo
I love you Brody, but this isn't the type of solution im looking for in this situation, i did a minor update to an already working project. I wouldn't expect it to just stop working all of a sudden
I understand it may not be the solution you are looking for, but as I mentioned installing puppeteer (chrome) is known to be buggy, so it's best to simply avoid it, and you can avoid it by using browserless.
either way, I don't have any other solutions.
I appreciate your help, you helped me set the project up in the first place. This project was already very stable and I don't want to touch it too much anymore. Just a bummer I can't make minor tweaks all of a sudden. I remember browserless not working for my use case when I was first setting the project up, but I don't remember what my issue with it was.
Anyways, hoping someone else can chime in!
the last shot in the dark I'd try would be to write a Dockerfile