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FarFarAway
FarFarAway

Reputation: 1115

running electron app with custom main.js file. Electron rather starts the default main.js file

I have electron app with main.js which contains

const electron = require('electron')
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron')

function createWindow(){
    let win = new BrowserWindow({width: 800, height: 600})
    console.log("loading file index1");
    win.loadFile('index1.html')
}
app.on('ready',createWindow);

and main2.js

const electron = require('electron')
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron')

function createWindow(){
    let win = new BrowserWindow({width: 400, height: 400})
    console.log("loading file index2");

    win.loadFile('index2.html');
}
app.on('ready',createWindow);

both main.js are almost identical and they should show different pages. I want to start the app default with main.js and provide an option to start the app with main2.js . in my package.json I have introduced

{
  "name": "mytestapp",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "main.js",
  "scripts": {
    "start": "electron .",
    "test:e2e": "./node_modules/mocha/bin/mocha tests/test.js",
    "main2": "npm run start ./main2.js",
    "debug": "./node_modules/.bin/electron ./main2.js"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "devDependencies": {
    "electron": "^4.0.8",
    "mocha": "^3.5.3",
    "spectron": "^5.0.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "start": "^5.1.0"
  }
}

now when I start the app with npm run main2 i still get the page index1 and the app dose not log anything enter image description here

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2695

Answers (1)

pergy
pergy

Reputation: 5521

Your main2 script should be electron ./main2 to do what you want.

npm run start main2 won't start main2, because it runs start (electron .) script, which loads the default module electron finds. The default module is what you defined in main field

Upvotes: 2

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