fix(docs): add back troubleshooting.md (#605)
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# Troubleshooting
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- [Chromium](#chromium)
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  * [Chrome headless doesn't launch on Windows](#chrome-headless-doesnt-launch-on-windows)
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  * [Chrome headless doesn't launch on Linux/WSL](#chrome-headless-doesnt-launch-on-linuxwsl)
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  * [Setting Up Chrome Linux Sandbox](#setting-up-chrome-linux-sandbox)
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    - [[recommended] Enable user namespace cloning](#recommended-enable-user-namespace-cloning)
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    - [[alternative] Setup setuid sandbox](#alternative-setup-setuid-sandbox)
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  * [Running Playwright on Travis CI](#running-playwright-on-travis-ci)
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  * [Running Playwright on CircleCI](#running-playwright-on-circleci)
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  * [Running Playwright in Docker](#running-playwright-in-docker)
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    - [Tips](#tips)
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- [Code Transpilation Issues](#code-transpilation-issues)
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## Chromium
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### Chrome headless doesn't launch on Windows
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Some [chrome policies](https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/7532015?hl=en) might enforce running Chrome/Chromium
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with certain extensions.
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Playwright passes `--disable-extensions` flag by default and will fail to launch when such policies are active.
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To work around this, try running without the flag:
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```js
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const browser = await playwright.chromium.launch({
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  ignoreDefaultArgs: ['--disable-extensions'],
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});
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```
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> Context: [Puppetteer#3681](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/3681#issuecomment-447865342).
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### Chrome headless doesn't launch on Linux/WSL
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Make sure all the necessary dependencies are installed. You can run `ldd chrome | grep not` on a Linux
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machine to check which dependencies are missing. The common ones are provided below.
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<details>
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<summary>Debian (e.g. Ubuntu) Dependencies</summary>
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```
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gconf-service
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libasound2
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libatk1.0-0
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libatk-bridge2.0-0
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libc6
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libcairo2
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libcups2
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libdbus-1-3
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libexpat1
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libfontconfig1
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libgcc1
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libgconf-2-4
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libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0
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libglib2.0-0
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libgtk-3-0
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libnspr4
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libpango-1.0-0
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libpangocairo-1.0-0
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libstdc++6
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libx11-6
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libx11-xcb1
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libxcb1
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libxcomposite1
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libxcursor1
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libxdamage1
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libxext6
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libxfixes3
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libxi6
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libxrandr2
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libxrender1
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libxss1
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libxtst6
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ca-certificates
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fonts-liberation
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libappindicator1
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libnss3
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lsb-release
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xdg-utils
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wget
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```
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</details>
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<details>
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<summary>CentOS Dependencies</summary>
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```
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pango.x86_64
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libXcomposite.x86_64
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libXcursor.x86_64
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libXdamage.x86_64
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libXext.x86_64
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libXi.x86_64
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libXtst.x86_64
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cups-libs.x86_64
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libXScrnSaver.x86_64
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libXrandr.x86_64
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GConf2.x86_64
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alsa-lib.x86_64
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atk.x86_64
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gtk3.x86_64
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ipa-gothic-fonts
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xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi
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xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi
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xorg-x11-utils
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xorg-x11-fonts-cyrillic
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xorg-x11-fonts-Type1
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xorg-x11-fonts-misc
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```
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After installing dependencies you need to update nss library using this command
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```
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yum update nss -y
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```
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</details>
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<details>
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  <summary>Check out discussions</summary>
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- [Puppeteer#290](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/290) - Debian troubleshooting <br/>
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- [Puppeteer#391](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/391) - CentOS troubleshooting <br/>
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- [Puppeteer#379](https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/379) - Alpine troubleshooting <br/>
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</details>
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Please file new issues in this repo for things relating to Playwright.
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### Setting Up Chrome Linux Sandbox
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In order to protect the host environment from untrusted web content, Chrome uses [multiple layers of sandboxing](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/linux_sandboxing.md). For this to work properly,
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the host should be configured first. If there's no good sandbox for Chrome to use, it will crash
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with the error `No usable sandbox!`.
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If you **absolutely trust** the content you open in Chrome, you can launch Chrome
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with the `--no-sandbox` argument:
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```js
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const browser = await playwright.chromium.launch({args: ['--no-sandbox', '--disable-setuid-sandbox']});
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```
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> **NOTE**: Running without a sandbox is **strongly discouraged**. Consider configuring a sandbox instead.
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There are 2 ways to configure a sandbox in Chromium.
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#### [recommended] Enable [user namespace cloning](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/user_namespaces.7.html)
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User namespace cloning is only supported by modern kernels. Unprivileged user namespaces are generally fine to enable,
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but in some cases they open up more kernel attack surface for (unsandboxed) non-root processes to elevate to
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kernel privileges.
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```bash
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sudo sysctl -w kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1
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```
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#### [alternative] Setup [setuid sandbox](https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/linux_suid_sandbox_development.md)
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The setuid sandbox comes as a standalone executable and is located next to the Chromium that Playwright downloads. It is
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fine to re-use the same sandbox executable for different Chromium versions, so the following could be
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done only once per host environment:
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```bash
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# cd to the downloaded instance
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cd <project-dir-path>/node_modules/playwright/.local-chromium/linux-<revision>/chrome-linux/
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sudo chown root:root chrome_sandbox
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sudo chmod 4755 chrome_sandbox
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# copy sandbox executable to a shared location
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sudo cp -p chrome_sandbox /usr/local/sbin/chrome-devel-sandbox
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# export CHROME_DEVEL_SANDBOX env variable
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export CHROME_DEVEL_SANDBOX=/usr/local/sbin/chrome-devel-sandbox
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```
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You might want to export the `CHROME_DEVEL_SANDBOX` env variable by default. In this case, add the following to the `~/.bashrc`
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or `.zshenv`:
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```bash
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export CHROME_DEVEL_SANDBOX=/usr/local/sbin/chrome-devel-sandbox
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```
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### Running Playwright on Travis CI
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> 👋 We run our tests for Playwright on Travis CI - see our [`.travis.yml`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/master/.travis.yml) for reference.
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Tips-n-tricks:
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- The `libnss3` package must be installed in order to run Chromium on Ubuntu Trusty
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- [user namespace cloning](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man7/user_namespaces.7.html) should be enabled to support
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  proper sandboxing
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- [xvfb](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvfb) should be launched in order to run Chromium in non-headless mode (e.g. to test Chrome Extensions)
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To sum up, your `.travis.yml` might look like this:
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```yml
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language: node_js
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dist: trusty
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addons:
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  apt:
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    packages:
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      # This is required to run new chrome on old trusty
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      - libnss3
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notifications:
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  email: false
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cache:
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  directories:
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    - node_modules
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# allow headful tests
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before_install:
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  # Enable user namespace cloning
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  - "sysctl kernel.unprivileged_userns_clone=1"
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  # Launch XVFB
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  - "export DISPLAY=:99.0"
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  - "sh -e /etc/init.d/xvfb start"
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```
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### Running Playwright on CircleCI
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Running Playwright smoothly on CircleCI requires the following steps:
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1. Start with a [NodeJS
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   image](https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/circleci-images/#nodejs) in your config
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   like so:
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   ```yaml
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   docker:
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     - image: circleci/node:12 # Use your desired version
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       environment:
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         NODE_ENV: development # Only needed if playwright is in `devDependencies`
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   ```
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1. Dependencies like `libXtst6` probably need to be installed via `apt-get`,
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   so use the
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   [threetreeslight/puppeteer](https://circleci.com/orbs/registry/orb/threetreeslight/puppeteer)
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   orb
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   ([instructions](https://circleci.com/orbs/registry/orb/threetreeslight/puppeteer#quick-start)),
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   or paste parts of its
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   [source](https://circleci.com/orbs/registry/orb/threetreeslight/puppeteer#orb-source)
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   into your own config.
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1. Lastly, if you’re using Playwright through Jest, then you may encounter an
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   error spawning child processes:
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   ```
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   [00:00.0]  jest args: --e2e --spec --max-workers=36
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   Error: spawn ENOMEM
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      at ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:394:11)
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   ```
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   This is likely caused by Jest autodetecting the number of processes on the
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   entire machine (`36`) rather than the number allowed to your container
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   (`2`). To fix this, set `jest --maxWorkers=2` in your test command.
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### Running Playwright in Docker
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> 👋 We run our tests for Playwright in a Docker container - see our [`Dockerfile.linux`](https://github.com/microsoft/playwright/blob/master/.ci/node10/Dockerfile.linux) for reference.
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#### Tips
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By default, Docker runs a container with a `/dev/shm` shared memory space 64MB.
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This is [typically too small](https://github.com/c0b/chrome-in-docker/issues/1) for Chrome
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and will cause Chrome to crash when rendering large pages. To fix, run the container with
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`docker run --shm-size=1gb` to increase the size of `/dev/shm`. Since Chrome 65, this is no
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longer necessary. Instead, launch the browser with the `--disable-dev-shm-usage` flag:
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```js
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const browser = await playwright.chromium.launch({
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  args: ['--disable-dev-shm-usage']
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});
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```
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This will write shared memory files into `/tmp` instead of `/dev/shm`. See [crbug.com/736452](https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=736452) for more details.
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Seeing other weird errors when launching Chrome? Try running your container
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with `docker run --cap-add=SYS_ADMIN` when developing locally. Since the Dockerfile
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adds a `pptr` user as a non-privileged user, it may not have all the necessary privileges.
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[dumb-init](https://github.com/Yelp/dumb-init) is worth checking out if you're
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experiencing a lot of zombies Chrome processes sticking around. There's special
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treatment for processes with PID=1, which makes it hard to terminate Chrome
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properly in some cases (e.g. in Docker).
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## Code Transpilation Issues
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If you are using a JavaScript transpiler like babel or TypeScript, calling `evaluate()` with an async function might not work. This is because while `playwright` uses `Function.prototype.toString()` to serialize functions while transpilers could be changing the output code in such a way it's incompatible with `playwright`.
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Some workarounds to this problem would be to instruct the transpiler not to mess up with the code, for example, configure TypeScript to use latest ecma version (`"target": "es2018"`). Another workaround could be using string templates instead of functions:
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```js
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await page.evaluate(`(async() => {
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   console.log('1');
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})()`);
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```
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# Please file an issue
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Playwright is a new project, and we are watching the issues very closely. As we solve common issues, this document will grow to include the common answers.
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    const api = await Source.readFile(path.join(PROJECT_DIR, 'docs', 'api.md'));
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    const mdSources = [readme, api];
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