`npm install` aborts on Apple Silicon due to Puppeteer not finding appropriate chromium binary

[afragen]

On Apple Silicon, I get an error running npm install from wordpress-develop due to a puppeteer script.

$ npm install

> puppeteer@4.0.1 install /Users/afragen/Local_Beta_Sites/wordpressdevelop/app/public/node_modules/grunt-contrib-qunit/node_modules/puppeteer
> node install.js

The chromium binary is not available for arm64:
If you are on Ubuntu, you can install with:

 apt-get install chromium-browser

/Users/afragen/Local_Beta_Sites/wordpressdevelop/app/public/node_modules/grunt-contrib-qunit/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/BrowserFetcher.js:112
            throw new Error();
            ^

Error
    at /Users/afragen/Local_Beta_Sites/wordpressdevelop/app/public/node_modules/grunt-contrib-qunit/node_modules/puppeteer/lib/BrowserFetcher.js:112:19

I am running the shell session in Rosetta (x86_64) emulation. This has previously worked and not certain if it's related to r50441.

Setting export PUPPETEER_SKIP_CHROMIUM_DOWNLOAD=true in the session does allow for the npm install to complete.

[jorbin]

Upstream issue with some workaround: ​https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer/issues/6622

[afragen]

Thanks Aaron

[afragen]

I have used nvm to install node v15.x which is able to be compiled for arm64. Must have Xcode Command Line Tools installed.

• nvm install 15, give this time to compile/build, currently this installs node v15.10.0
• nvm use 15
• nvm alias default 15, this so every new session will use this version of node.

Now there's no need to run the shell session under Rosetta.

[SergeyBiryukov]

Related: #52356

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/52690

There is a brand new version grunt-contrib-qunit that resolves the issue with Puppeteer's installation.

I wanted to check CI jobs but locally everything works perfectly fine.

[gziolo]

In 53069:

Build: Fix npm install on Apple Silicon

Fixes the issue where npm install aborts on Apple Silicon due to Puppeteer not finding appropriate chromium binary. It works correctly with the latest versio of grunt-contrib-qunit package.

Props afragen, jorbin, SergeyBiryukov.
Fixes #52690.
Related #52356.

Committed with https://core.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/53069.