better-sqlite3: Failed to build in Electron

Can anybody help me use this in Electron?

I tried the following command,

npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
npm install --save-dev better-sqlite3
.\node_modules\.bin\electron-rebuild.cmd

but every time I start running the application, I got an error of

..\better_sqlite3.node'
was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 83. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 98. Please try re-compiling or re-installing
the module (for instance, using `npm rebuild` or `npm install`).
    at process.func [as dlopen] (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:5:1800)
    at Object.Module._extensions..node (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1170:18)
    at Object.func [as .node] (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:5:1800)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:982:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:823:12)
    at Function.c._load (node:electron/js2c/asar_bundle:5:13331)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1006:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:93:18)

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Created 3 years ago
Reactions: 4
Comments: 17 (1 by maintainers)

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@kryops experienced 100% the same as you, manually building works, but it’s tedious if electron-rebuild is set up as a postinstall; I have to manually rebuild after every module addition.

NODE_MODULE_VERSION is the abi number, which one can look up here: abi_version_registry eg.:

{ "modules": 98, "runtime": "electron", "variant": "electron",             "versions": "15" },
{ "modules": 89, "runtime": "electron", "variant": "electron",             "versions": "13" },
{ "modules": 83, "runtime": "node",     "variant": "v8_8.1",               "versions": "14.0.0" },

Basically it means that electron-rebuild is rebuilding, but for the wrong version. I think it’s a wrong resolution here for new electron versions: https://github.com/electron/electron-rebuild/blob/master/src/rebuild.ts#L124 electron-rebuild uses node-abi 3.0.0, whereas node-abi is at 3.2.0, so adding the following to my package.json did the trick:

"resolutions": { "**/node-abi": "^3.2.0" },

Since node-abi is basically only used as a reference table, I’m fine with “overwriting” to the newest version, there are not breaking “feature” changes, it just houses the latest abi numbers for node versions.

I opened an issue at https://github.com/electron/electron-rebuild/issues/886 since it’s an issue on their end, I think we can close the issue here.

tom2strobl on Oct 5, 2021

@zkldi If you’re using electron-builder, I’d recommend using a postinstall script to run electron-builder install-app-deps. It’s generally more reliable than electron-rebuild in my experience. E.g:

"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps"
}

johnpyp on Nov 2, 2021

I don’t get it, how are we supposed to fix this? I’ve added

"scripts": {
    "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps"
},
"resolutions": { "**/node-abi": "^3.2.0" },

to my package.json file and tried dozens of other combinations of fixes from StackOverflow and GitHub issues but no matter what I do I get:

was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 93. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 99. Please try re-compiling or re-installing
the module

electrovir on Jan 8, 2022

This issue is also happening to me still in 7.4.4? What did I do wrong?

Picono435 on Nov 5, 2021

This should be fixed in v7.4.4.

JoshuaWise on Oct 25, 2021

@tom2strobl thanks so much for your analysis, I can confirm that the resolutions workaround fixes it for us as well! 😊

kryops on Oct 5, 2021