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Companion to iamgio/quarkdown#655, which removes the Node.js + npm + Puppeteer runtime dependency from PDF export in favor of driving a Chromium-family browser directly.

The browser install logic lives in the Quarkdown distribution itself: the release zip ships scripts/install-chrome.sh/.ps1 next to chrome.properties (the version + SHA-256 pins shared by all installers and the Docker image), so this installer only invokes the script and wires QD_CHROME_PATH. If the script is absent (a pre-browser release), it warns and skips.

⚠️ Merge timing

Do not merge until the first Puppeteer-free Quarkdown release is published: current releases still require Node.js + Puppeteer for PDF export and do not ship the installer script.

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Changes

  • Drops depends_on "node" and the npm install puppeteer step.
  • post_install runs the bundled scripts/install-chrome.sh — after Homebrew's keg-relocation pass, which would otherwise corrupt the browser's signed Mach-O binaries (the same reason the JVM runtime is tar-stashed).
  • The CLI wrapper exports QD_CHROME_PATH instead of QD_NPM_PREFIX/PUPPETEER_CACHE_DIR. Merge ideally together with the version bump to the first browser-based release.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Improvements

    • Homebrew installation no longer requires Node.js or Puppeteer.
    • Headless Chrome is installed and configured automatically for CLI rendering.
    • The CLI now uses the bundled headless browser setup for more streamlined HTML and PDF output.
  • Quality Improvements

    • Automated checks now verify Homebrew installation and HTML/PDF compilation across macOS and Ubuntu.

CI

A new Test formula against devbuild workflow installs this formula with its sources swapped to Quarkdown's latest devbuild release (macOS + Linux), runs brew test, and smoke-tests HTML and PDF export — mirroring installation-tests, which covers real releases. Note: the PDF part stays red until the devbuild ships the bundled browser installer (i.e. once iamgio/quarkdown#655 lands on main).

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Walkthrough

The formula removes the Node and npm Puppeteer setup. During post_install, it installs a platform-specific chrome-headless-shell and configures the wrapper with its path. A new GitHub Actions workflow validates HTML and PDF export on macOS and Ubuntu.

Changes

Bundled browser integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Headless shell provisioning
Formula/quarkdown.rb
The formula selects the host platform and runs scripts/install-chrome.sh into libexec/chrome-headless-shell. It warns and exits when the script is absent.
Quarkdown runtime wiring
Formula/quarkdown.rb
The formula removes the Node dependency and npm Puppeteer installation. The wrapper prepends libexec/bin to PATH, sets QD_CHROME_PATH to the bundled shell, and uses the -o test flag.
Cross-platform formula validation
.github/workflows/test.yml
The workflow selects a platform-specific devbuild, installs the formula on macOS and Ubuntu, runs brew test, and checks HTML and PDF output.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟠 High · up to 4d318

Merging now would break PDF export for the pinned release. The workflow also exposes credentials to executed code and the browser installation path retains an unresolved integrity risk.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant GitHubActions
  participant HomebrewFormula
  participant InstallChromeScript
  participant QuarkdownCLI
  GitHubActions->>HomebrewFormula: Patch and install the platform-specific devbuild
  HomebrewFormula->>InstallChromeScript: Run install-chrome.sh during post_install
  InstallChromeScript->>HomebrewFormula: Install chrome-headless-shell into libexec
  QuarkdownCLI->>HomebrewFormula: Start through the formula wrapper
  HomebrewFormula->>QuarkdownCLI: Set QD_CHROME_PATH and prepend libexec/bin to PATH
  GitHubActions->>QuarkdownCLI: Run HTML and PDF smoke tests
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- Line 42: Update the Quarkdown formula’s runtime setup to retain Node.js and
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dependencies required by PDF export until the formula targets a Puppeteer-free
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- Around line 95-99: Update the browser download flow in the Formula’s Chrome
archive setup to define and verify a platform-specific SHA-256 checksum for the
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Quarkdown no longer uses Node.js, npm, and Puppeteer for PDF export:
it drives a Chromium-family browser directly (iamgio/quarkdown#655).

The formula now downloads chrome-headless-shell from Chrome for Testing
in post_install (after Homebrew's relocation pass, which would corrupt
the browser's signed Mach-O binaries, like the stashed runtime), at the
version pinned by the release's bundled chrome-version.txt, and wires it
via QD_BROWSER_PATH in the CLI wrapper. The node dependency is dropped.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@Formula/quarkdown.rb`:
- Line 42: Remove the QD_CHROME_PATH Chrome-only wrapper change and preserve the
existing Node.js/npm/Puppeteer-based runtime and QD_NPM_PREFIX setup for
Quarkdown 2.5.1; only adopt the wrapper when the formula targets a
Puppeteer-free release.
- Line 42: Update the Quarkdown version and browser setup so they are
compatible: either pin a Puppeteer-free release that consumes
QD_CHROME_PATH/QD_BROWSER_PATH, or retain the v2.5.1 Node/Puppeteer
configuration and its QD_NPM_PREFIX-based module lookup. Ensure post_install
only references an install script present in the selected release.
- Line 76: Update the installer path assigned to script in the formula to use
the shipped scripts/install-browser.sh filename instead of
scripts/install-chrome.sh, preserving the existing browser installation flow.
- Line 83: Remove the unsupported browser installer integration from the
install_headless_shell flow, including the system invocation of
scripts/install-chrome.sh and any resulting QD_CHROME_PATH setup that depends on
headless_shell_root being created. Ensure PDF export does not receive a path to
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Installs the formula with its sources swapped to the latest devbuild
release, runs the formula test, and smoke-tests HTML and PDF export,
mirroring quarkdown-labs/installation-tests (which covers real releases).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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The CLI accepts -o/--out, not --output; the test block predates
being exercised in CI.

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The checkout token is not persisted and brew receives no API token:
the workflow only reads public release assets.

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