Update devcontainer with chromium dependencies

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js
Domain
devops, testing-qa

Research direction

Inspect the repository's devcontainer configuration and reproduce the failure with npm install && npm run test in a fresh Codespace. Use ldd on the Chromium binary to verify the missing libraries listed in the issue. Done means ChromeHeadless starts successfully and the test command no longer reports missing shared libraries.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

When attempting to npm install && npm run test in a fresh codespace, we initially see an error related to a missing shared library:

26 04 2022 14:32:23.081:ERROR [launcher]: Cannot start ChromeHeadless
        /workspaces/paste-markdown/node_modules/chromium/lib/chromium/chrome-linux/chrome: error while loading shared libraries: libnss3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Running

ldd /workspaces/paste-markdown/node_modules/chromium/lib/chromium/chrome-linux/chrome | grep not

shows a list of libraries similar to that in https://github.com/dtolstyi/node-chromium/issues/52#issuecomment-1028727251

        libnss3.so => not found
        libnssutil3.so => not found
        libsmime3.so => not found
        libnspr4.so => not found
        libatk-1.0.so.0 => not found
        libatk-bridge-2.0.so.0 => not found
        libcups.so.2 => not found
        libdrm.so.2 => not found
        libxkbcommon.so.0 => not found
        libXcomposite.so.1 => not found
        libXdamage.so.1 => not found
        libXfixes.so.3 => not found
        libXrandr.so.2 => not found
        libgbm.so.1 => not found
        libpango-1.0.so.0 => not found
        libcairo.so.2 => not found
        libasound.so.2 => not found
        libatspi.so.0 => not found

^^ This correlates pretty well to https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/blob/main/docs/troubleshooting.md#chrome-headless-doesnt-launch-on-unix

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