NPM start fails on M1+ (Apple Silicon) powered Macs

[hawkishpolicy]

🐛 Summary

What's wrong? Please be specific.

For some reason, Apple Silicon based Macs error out during docker-build of the backend.
Based off some research on Stack Overflow it seems to have something to do with M1 chip support for the node-gyp package.

To reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Follow dev guide as normal on Apple Silicon powered Mac
2. Run NPM start
3. docker compose will error out in backend 6/7

Expected behavior

What did you expect to happen that didn't?

To run XFD on local host

Any helpful log output or screenshots

Paste the results here:

> [backend 6/7] RUN PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true npm ci:
5.488 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Package no longer supported. Contact Support at https://www.npmjs.com/support for more info.
5.530 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Use your platform's native performance.now() and performance.timeOrigin.
5.915 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Package no longer supported. Contact Support at https://www.npmjs.com/support for more info.
8.244 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
17.55 npm WARN deprecated @aws-sdk/[email protected]: This package has moved to @smithy/util-retry
17.59 npm WARN deprecated @aws-sdk/[email protected]: This package has moved to @smithy/smithy-client
17.62 npm WARN deprecated @aws-sdk/[email protected]: This package has moved to @smithy/node-config-provider
18.11 npm WARN deprecated @aws-sdk/[email protected]: This package has moved to @smithy/config-resolver
22.51 npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
32.74 npm notice 
32.74 npm notice New major version of npm available! 9.9.3 -> 10.5.0
32.74 npm notice Changelog: <https://github.com/npm/cli/releases/tag/v10.5.0>
32.74 npm notice Run `npm install -g [email protected]` to update!
32.74 npm notice 
32.75 npm ERR! code 1
32.75 npm ERR! path /app/node_modules/bufferutil
32.76 npm ERR! command failed
32.76 npm ERR! command sh -c node-gyp-build
32.76 npm ERR! gyp info it worked if it ends with ok
32.76 npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected]
32.76 npm ERR! gyp info using [email protected] | linux | arm64
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python 
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python Python is not set from command line or npm configuration
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python Python is not set from environment variable PYTHON
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python checking if "python3" can be used
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python - "python3" is not in PATH or produced an error
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python checking if "python" can be used
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python - "python" is not in PATH or produced an error
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python 
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python **********************************************************
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python You need to install the latest version of Python.
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python Node-gyp should be able to find and use Python. If not,
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python you can try one of the following options:
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python - Use the switch --python="/path/to/pythonexecutable"
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python   (accepted by both node-gyp and npm)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python - Set the environment variable PYTHON
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python - Set the npm configuration variable python:
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python   npm config set python "/path/to/pythonexecutable"
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python For more information consult the documentation at:
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp#installation
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python **********************************************************
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! find Python 
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! configure error 
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack Error: Could not find any Python installation to use
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.fail (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/find-python.js:330:47)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.runChecks (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/find-python.js:159:21)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.<anonymous> (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/find-python.js:202:16)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at PythonFinder.execFileCallback (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/find-python.js:294:16)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at exithandler (node:child_process:430:5)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.errorhandler (node:child_process:442:5)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:517:28)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:290:12)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:477:16)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! stack     at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! System Linux 6.6.16-linuxkit
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! command "/usr/local/bin/node" "/usr/local/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! cwd /app/node_modules/bufferutil
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! node -v v18.19.0
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v9.4.1
32.76 npm ERR! gyp ERR! not ok
32.77 
32.77 npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in: /root/.npm/_logs/2024-03-15T17_20_57_413Z-debug-0.log

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