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+ARG NODEJS_VERSION=22
+ARG DEBIAN_VERSION=trixie
+ARG BASE_IMAGE=node:${NODEJS_VERSION}-${DEBIAN_VERSION}-slim
+
+ARG OBSIDIAN_VERSION=1.9.14
+ARG OBSIDIAN_APPIMAGE_FILE=Obsidian-${OBSIDIAN_VERSION}.AppImage
+
+FROM busybox:latest AS obsidian-downloader
+ARG OBSIDIAN_VERSION
+ARG OBSIDIAN_APPIMAGE_FILE
+RUN wget https://github.com/obsidianmd/obsidian-releases/releases/download/v${OBSIDIAN_VERSION}/${OBSIDIAN_APPIMAGE_FILE}
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE} AS obsidian-extractor
+ARG OBSIDIAN_APPIMAGE_FILE
+COPY --from=obsidian-downloader /${OBSIDIAN_APPIMAGE_FILE} /${OBSIDIAN_APPIMAGE_FILE}
+RUN chmod +x ${OBSIDIAN_APPIMAGE_FILE}
+RUN ./${OBSIDIAN_APPIMAGE_FILE} --appimage-extract
+
+FROM ${BASE_IMAGE}
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends --no-install-suggests \
+      libgtk-3-0 libnss3 libgbm1 libasound2 \
+      xvfb xauth && \
+    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+COPY --from=obsidian-extractor /squashfs-root /obsidian-appimage-extracted
+
+ENV OBSIDIAN_BINARY_PATH=/obsidian-appimage-extracted/obsidian
+ENV OBSIDIAN_NO_SANDBOX=true
+
+RUN corepack enable pnpm
+
+# for running locally as: docker run --rm -it -v ${PWD}:/plugin local-ci-runner
+WORKDIR /plugin
+CMD ["sh", "-c", "pnpm i && cd e2e && pnpm i && xvfb-run pnpm run test"]