Using this package on Self Hosted Linux Platform e.g Digital Ocean, Linode

[njoguamos]

While this package is suitable for the serverless environment, it can also work on self-hosted platforms such as Digital Ocean Droplets. At first, when I tried to run on self hosted solution platform you may get errors such as follows:

Error: Failed to launch the browser process! spawn /usr/bin/google-chrome ENOENT
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:82:21)
    at onErrorNT (node:internal/child_process:476:16)
    at ChildProcess._handle.onexit (node:internal/child_process:289:12)
    at ChildProcess.emit (node:events:513:28)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/xxxx/xxxxx/node_modules/puppeteer-core/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:189:85)
    at onClose (/home/xxxx/xxxxxxxx/node_modules/puppeteer-core/lib/cjs/puppeteer/node/BrowserRunner.js:197:20)
TROUBLESHOOTING: https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md

The following steps may help you avoid errors:

1. Install NodeJs

curl -s https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_16.x | sudo bash
sudo apt-get install -y nodejs
node -v

2. Install Puppeteer and Chrome depedencies

sudo apt-get install -y gconf-service libasound2 libatk1.0-0 libc6 libcairo2 libcups2 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfontconfig1 libgbm1 libgcc1 libgconf-2-4 libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 libglib2.0-0 libgtk-3-0 libnspr4 libpango-1.0-0 libpangocairo-1.0-0 libstdc++6 libx11-6 libx11-xcb1 libxcb1 libxcomposite1 libxcursor1 libxdamage1 libxext6 libxfixes3 libxi6 libxrandr2 libxrender1 libxss1 libxtst6 ca-certificates fonts-liberation libappindicator1 libnss3 lsb-release xdg-utils wget libgbm-dev libxshmfence-dev
sudo npm install --location=global --unsafe-perm puppeteer
sudo chmod -R o+rx /usr/lib/node_modules/puppeteer/.local-chromium

3. Install Google Chrome

This package used Google Chrome-specific binaries on Linux

next-api-og-image/src/index.ts

Lines 240 to 242 in 1e579a5

	} else if (process.platform === 'linux') {
	executable = '/usr/bin/google-chrome'
	} else {

sudo apt upgrade
sudo apt install wget
wget https://dl.google.com/linux/direct/google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i google-chrome-stable_current_amd64.deb
google-chrome --version

This assumes that you know how to serve NextJs on Nginx via reverse proxy.

You should be able to generate your og Images now.

[neg4n]

Hey @njoguamos, thanks for posting this!

By the way, check out 4.3.0 version 🔥
You can set custom chrome path directly in next-api-og-image options.
You no longer have to create symlinks or use any other hacky solutions

[njoguamos]

Great. I will give it a try.

Thank you for the effort in maintaining this package.