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I am writing an react-electron application and I noticed that when I used electron-builder to build it the binary was stuck when calling "spawn".

With "yarn start" the application can be executed without problems. Only with electron-builder it gets stuck.

Can you help ?

Thanks,

Update

It seems that the C++ binary included as part of the program can't be executed within electron. If I give the hardcoded full path to the binary it works but if I give the path from __dirname I get an error

So, I'm working with Electron.js recently and I've packaged a few applications. Today I decided to mess around with file saving and loading and such, and I got a very solid GUI working for saving, reading, editing, and deleting text files. The way it works is by writing all its files to a /saves/ directory inside the source code, and reading from the same place. It works perfectly when run using electron ., and so I know the issue is not with my code (so for that reason, I won't even include my code here, because I know what the issue is and I know it's not to do with my code)

The issue here is that, when I package my code using electron-packager . electron-tutorial-app --overwrite --asar --platform=win32 --arch=ia32 --icon=assets/icons/win/icon.ico --prune=true --out=release-builds --version-string.CompanyName=CE --version-string.FileDescription=CE --version-string.ProductName=\"Electron Tutorial App\" and run the outputted .exe file, I get the following error: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, scandir 'saves'

When I check the packaged files, I see that my /saves/ directory is, in fact, missing. It didn't get packaged along with the rest of the application, and it is now unable to be found. If I manually create a /saves/ directory inside the folder with the .exe file, then it works perfectly fine...

So what I'm wondering is, is there a way to tell electron-packager to package the /saves/ directory along with the rest of the project? Would that require me to add a flag to my command, or perhaps change my package.json ?

Here's my package.json:

In my electron app I want to package knex to use an sqlite3 database.

My package.json file

FrameWork - ElectronJS

My program uses .json files to save the user entered data. In development environment those files are written perfectly, however after packaging it with electron-packager the JSON files are no longer written, which completely makes my program invalid.

I used mostly those JSON files to write my program, so removing them completely will be again doing the program from scratch. Is there a way to make the program write the JSON files in client PC as it does in dev-environment.

This is just a sample program, but all of my code is in this format.

I have the following function that is trying to load a .ejs file with the following path.

I have an electron program I am building to production. When I run the .exe created I get the following error.

I have installed xmlbuilder using the following command

npm install -g xmlbuilder

Here is my package.json file as well.

I have two running examples both using the same HTML page here.

I have build a simple app using electron and its works fine when you launch with npm start. After i am try to deploy my application, I am getting following error.

WARNING: --asar does not take any arguments, it only has sub-properties (see --help) Packaging app for platform win32 ia32 using electron v4.1.3 WARNING: Found 'electron' but not as a devDependency, pruning anyway rcedit.exe failed with exit code 1. Reserved header is not 0 or image type is not icon for 'a' Fatal error: Unable to set icon npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE npm ERR! errno 1 npm ERR! shoppinglist@1.0.0 package-win: electron-packager . electron-tutorial-app --overwrite --asar=true --platform=win32 --arch=ia32 --icon=assets/icons/win/icon.ico --prune=true --out=release-builds --version-string.CompanyName=CE --version-string.FileDescription=CE --version-string.ProductName="ShoppingList" npm ERR! Exit status 1 npm ERR! npm ERR! Failed at the shoppinglist@1.0.0 package-win script. npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.`

I already tried npm cache clean --force and install node modules again by npm install did't worked in my case. can anyone help me with this please?

package.json

i have just started brushing up with electron and as a starter , i cloned this simple electron-tutorial-app to see how things work.(everything works fine with the official electron starter app).

git repo used: https://github.com/crilleengvall/electron-tutorial-app

i am not including the scripts since it is all available there.

What i have modified: edited the index.html and sections->welcome.html as shown

What is the error: the expected changes wasnt rendered in the electron app.

(note: i have not changed anything in .js or any .css files)

original UI (from the repo):

changes in index.html (expected changes in left panel of UI):

changes in sections->welcome.html (expected changes in main panel of UI):

Now,after i made those changes and ran the app, i get this. (see on left panel , i get "bacon" and on main panel "testing" header is rendered but the paragarph under it isnt changed.)

i am a bit confused what is happenning becuase i did some googling and thought it might be session cache issue but again, part is it is being edited and part isnt.

Any help would be appreciated.