Access to node files for spatie/browsershot to create PDF files

[betsyecastro]

In our staging and production environment, do we need to specify the binary path to give spatie/browsershot (package to generate PDF files https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v2/usage/creating-pdfs) access to the node modules?

To render a PDF file locally, I had to do it with the Browsershot option setIncludePath like so:

    /**
     * Generate PFD Export
     *
     * @param  Profile $profile
     * @return pdf
     */
    public function pdfExport(Profile $profile) {
       $pdf_content =  Browsershot::url($profile->url)
            ->setIncludePath("/Users/bxc180019/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/bin")
            ->setExtraHttpHeaders(['Paginated' => '0'])
            ->pdf();

        return response($pdf_content)->header('Content-Type', 'application/pdf');
    } 

https://spatie.be/docs/browsershot/v2/requirements

Thank you :)

[wunc]

Not sure, but I would suggest creating a config and .env setting for it. If you can apply the setIncludePath() conditionally depending on whether that setting exists, that would also be good.

[betsyecastro]

Ok, this is how I did it and it works.

    public function pdfExport(Profile $profile, $include_path = false) {
        if (!$include_path) {
            try {
                $pdf_content = Browsershot::url($profile->url)
                                ->setExtraHttpHeaders(['Paginated' => '0'])
                                ->pdf();
            } catch (ProcessFailedException $e) {
                $this->pdfExport($profile, true);
            } 
        }
        $pdf_content = Browsershot::url($profile->url)
                        ->setIncludePath(env('BROWSERSHOT_NODE_MODULES'))
                        ->setExtraHttpHeaders(['Paginated' => '0'])
                        ->pdf();
        return response($pdf_content)->header('Content-Type', 'application/pdf');
    }

And, as @gab3 suggested, I used the relative path for the BROWSERSHOT_NODE_MODULES setting, in the .env file:

BROWSERSHOT_NODE_MODULES="~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.15.1/bin"

Thank you both!