Build Joplin in Docker

01-BUILD-JOPLIN-IN-DOCKER.md

Multi build

This will create a whole bunch of node-xx version docker images preloaded with the official Joplin 3.1.24 tarball. Then, we'll try to build it.

Currently, I've tested the build with node 18 19 20 21 22 and 23.

Canvas is seemingly not building on node 20+, this is to validate that theory. See: Automattic/node-canvas#2448

I'll post the results later... my laptop takes about 20 minutes per build, so see you in a few hours.

grab the github.com star cert (public)

$ openssl s_client -showcerts codeload.github.com:443 &> github.cer

Put it next to the Dockerfile here.

I really just kept the CERT parts and not the comments.. YMMV.

Run the script to build the docker images and test yarn install

$ ./create-node-dirs.sh
. . .
$ ./build-joplin-all-images.sh
. . .

build-joplin-all-images.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -o errexit
set -o nounset


for ver in 18 19 20 21 22 23; do
  podman run -it --entrypoint /home/node/install.sh "joplin-build-node-${ver}"
done

create-node-dirs.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -o errexit
set -o nounset


for ver in 18 19 20 21 22 23; do
  node_ver_dir_name="node-${ver}"
  mkdir "${node_ver_dir_name}"
  pushd "${node_ver_dir_name}"
  cp ../github.cer ./
  cp ../Dockerfile ./
  cp ../install.sh ./
  sed -i s/node:18/node:${ver}/ ./Dockerfile
  podman build -t "joplin-build-node-${ver}" .
  popd
done

Dockerfile

FROM node:18-slim AS build

ARG JOPLIN_VERSION=3.1.24

RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
    make \
    g++ \
    dumb-init \
    build-essential \
    libcairo2-dev \
    libpango1.0-dev \
    libjpeg-dev \
    libgif-dev \
    librsvg2-dev \
    python3 \
    wget \
    rsync \
    git \
    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

WORKDIR /home/node/
COPY github.cer .

# super annoying to get this file over and over again
# lets put it in a layer
RUN wget \
    --quiet \
    --ca-certificate=github.cer \
    --no-clobber \
    "https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/archive/refs/tags/v${JOPLIN_VERSION}.tar.gz" \
    -O joplin.tar.gz

COPY install.sh .

install-canvas.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -o errexit
set -o nounset

# some dependencies require https connections to github?
git config --global http.sslCAInfo /home/node/github.cer

echo "Node $( node -v )"
echo "Yarn $( yarn --version )"
echo "Debian version $(cat /etc/debian_version)"
echo "Kernel Version $(uname -r)"

mkdir -p buildcanvas2112
cd buildcanvas2112
yes | yarn init
yarn add canvas@2.11.2 --verbose

install-joplin.sh

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -o errexit
set -o nounset

# some dependencies require https connections to github?
git config --global http.sslCAInfo /home/node/github.cer

mkdir -p joplin
# no need to see the output of this
tar xf joplin.tar.gz -C joplin &>/dev/null

cd joplin

JOPLIN_VER_DIR=$(find . -maxdepth 1 -type d -name "joplin*")
cd "${JOPLIN_VER_DIR}"

yarn_bin="$(find .yarn/releases -type f -name "*.cjs")"

echo "Node $( node -v )"
echo "Yarn $( ${yarn_bin} -v )"
echo "Debian version $(cat /etc/debian_version)"
echo "Kernel Version $(uname -r)"

"${yarn_bin}" install --inline-builds

I really don't understand the inconsistencies around this build. If I look at it wrong, Joplin doesn't seem to build.

I used this to build Joplin a few times in all these versions and it looks like only node 23 seems to fail consistently for me.

Yet, if i just build canvas with yarn -- it builds on all node versions perfectly. 🤔