Network connectivity error executing `npx playwright` within container

[johnkchiu]

Issue with running npx playwright --version with network with no NPM access. Is it possible to package playwright CLI into the Docker container?

When trying to generate a report from result, we're seeing this error:

Created directory: /app/data/reports/project-name/923bcc02-0a78-43dd-b997-c181dddb7c47
[pw] report path: /app/data/reports/project-name/923bcc02-0a78-43dd-b997-c181dddb7c47
[pw] merging reports from /app/.tmp/923bcc02-0a78-43dd-b997-c181dddb7c47
[pw] using playwright version tag: ""
[report/generate] error: Error: Command failed: npx playwright --version
npm error code ECONNRESET
npm error syscall read
npm error errno ECONNRESET
npm error network request to https://registry.npmjs.org/playwright failed, reason: read ECONNRESET
npm error network This is a problem related to network connectivity.
npm error network In most cases you are behind a proxy or have bad network settings.
npm error network
npm error network If you are behind a proxy, please make sure that the
npm error network 'proxy' config is set properly. See: 'npm help config'
npm error Log files were not written due to an error writing to the directory: /.npm/_logs
npm error You can rerun the command with `--loglevel=verbose` to see the logs in your terminal

[Xotabu4]

Unfortunately now we need access to playwright npm packages downloads to support multiple playwright versions for incoming reports.

By default we pre-installing into docker a "@playwright/test": "latest" package, but depending on your project actual received report might be from different version.

I think we can bundle something like 3 latest versions into docker container, but when new playwright version will be released - you will have to re-pull image and restart server to get new versions

Does this might work for you?

Another option - we can allow specifying your registry as option to pull npm packages instead public npm registry

[johnkchiu]

For now, my workaround is to rebuild the Docker image and install Playwright:

FROM ghcr.io/cyborgtests/playwright-reports-server:latest

# Preinstall playwright
USER root
WORKDIR /app
RUN npm install --quite
RUN npm install --quite playwright
RUN npx playwright install
RUN npx playwright --version

# Switch back to non-root user
USER nextjs

This seems to work for our use case, but I'm not sure if we're using different versions of Playwright so maybe that's not an issue.