electron-builder: Electron builder Can not find fs/promises

Error: Cannot find module ‘fs/promises’ Require stack:

/Users/abhimatta/Documents/abhishek/accura-electron-dev/node_modules/builder-util/out/fs.js
/Users/abhimatta/Documents/abhishek/accura-electron-dev/node_modules/builder-util/out/util.js
/Users/abhimatta/Documents/abhishek/accura-electron-dev/node_modules/electron-builder/out/cli/cli.js
/Users/abhimatta/Documents/abhishek/accura-electron-dev/node_modules/electron-builder/cli.js at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:797:15) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:690:27) at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:852:19) at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18) at Object. (/Users/abhimatta/Documents/abhishek/accura-electron-dev/node_modules/builder-util/src/fs.ts:4:1) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:32) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:727:14) at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:852:19) at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:74:18) at Object. (/Users/abhimatta/Documents/abhishek/accura-electron-dev/node_modules/builder-util/src/util.ts:24:1) at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:30) at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:995:10) at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:815:32) at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:727:14)
Package.json configurations

“electron”: “^10.4.0”, “electron-builder”: “^22.10.4”, “node”: “10.22”

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 3 years ago
Comments: 15 (1 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

We run on Electron 11 and apply a patch for node_modules/electron-updater/out/AppUpdater.js:

8c8
< const promises_1 = require("fs/promises");
---
> const promises_1 = require("fs").promises;

KishanBagaria on Jul 17, 2021

I fixed this problem by rollback electron-updater version=4.3.9

dohard2023 on Nov 23, 2021

We run on Electron 11 and apply a patch for node_modules/electron-updater/out/AppUpdater.js:
8c8
< const promises_1 = require("fs/promises");
---
> const promises_1 = require("fs").promises;

This worked for me, Thank you 😃

carloliaci on Nov 20, 2021

Facing the same issue with node-v16.13.0-win-x64 and electron-updater latest=4.6.1. I get this error:

Failed to start the electron application.
Error: Cannot find module 'fs/promises'

Fixing this one line:

const promises_1 = require("fs/promises");

and changing it to:

const promises_1 = require("fs").promises;

Everything seems to work fine.

brgirgis on Nov 29, 2021

@abhishekmatcha, please try updating to node 12 then.

@Bartel-C8, yes, electron would need to be updated to one that supports Node 14. Is that not possible for you to do?

mmaietta on Jul 16, 2021