Reputation: 770
Using electron in combination with Angular2, Typescript and Electron I am try to find out how to use a node module package installed via npm.
The current problem is that I have to specify the location of the module like var module = require('./node_modules/xyz/lib/xyz.js')
. But then electron does not find the dependencies of xyz, which are located within ./node_modules/xyz/node_modules/yyy
and complains ./yyy.js
can not be found.
The electron app structure
dist
├── angular2.dev.js
├── config.js
├── index.html
├── main.js
├── node_modules
├── package.json
└── app.js
Upvotes: 14
Views: 41768
Reputation: 81
According to electron's docs, set the nodeIntegration preference to true. Do this by adding
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true
}
to your createWindow()
function.
Upvotes: 0
Reputation: 416
If you didn't include the modules in your package.json I found it easiest to just copy all of them to node_modules in your release. It's something like releases > ARCHITECTURE > resources > node_modules
Upvotes: 1
Reputation: 11388
UPDATE:
A similar question has been asked and my answer would most probably help you here:
If you don't append the path to your app node_modules
directory under your app root to the NODE_PATH
variable it is not going to work. So you need to do something like this:
export NODE_PATH=/PATH/TO/APP/node_modules
electron /PATH/TO/APP
When exporting NODE_PATH
make sure that you provide an absolute path.
require
them normally, it's a sign that your package.json
doesn't contain the modules as dependency even if the module is already available under your dist
directory.
So make sure that you are inside dist
directory and use
npm install --save xyz
note the --save
flag!
Upvotes: 8
Reputation: 276185
The current problem is that I have to specify the location of the module like var module = require('./node_modules/xyz/lib/xyz.js')
You should be able to do var module = require('xyz');
If you have it locates in the relative path ./node_modules/ ....
that you mentioned.
Upvotes: 1