electron-builder: Does not work with NPM workspaces

Electron-Builder Version: 23.3.3

Node Version: v18.3.0

Electron Version: 20.1.0
Electron Type (current, beta, nightly): current

Target: win32 x64

electron builder does not work in npm workspace it deletes app-builder-bin during “installing production dependencies” and then throws error:

• packaging       platform=win32 arch=x64 electron=20.1.0 appOutDir=dist\win-unpacked
The system cannot find the path specified.
  ⨯ spawn C:\Users\user\dev\test-workspace\node_modules\app-builder-bin\win\x64\app-builder.exe ENOENT

also it deletes more packages from node_modules, so next run throws

'electron-builder' is not recognized as an internal or external command

Reproduction: npm run build -w a in test-workspace.zip

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State: open
Created 2 years ago
Reactions: 12
Comments: 20 (9 by maintainers)

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still not stale

rotu on Feb 21, 2024

not stale

rotu on Dec 22, 2023

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github-actions[bot] on Aug 10, 2023

still not stale

vincesp on Apr 29, 2024

still not stale

rotu on Apr 28, 2024

Very intereesting.

Is there a proper way to detect if we’re in a npm workspace and can discern that dependencies are already installed?

mmaietta on Sep 19, 2023

Yes, still an issue: having to create an empty ‘node_modules’ folder on every workspace and having to fix the version of Electron on package.json is very annoying…

BrunoSoaresEngineering on Sep 19, 2023

Try to add build option below in your package.json which has main entry for electron app:

{
  "main": "build/electron/main.js",
  ...,
  "build": {
    ...,
    "npmRebuild": false
  }
}

Hinaser on Jan 17, 2023