Electron 3.0.0-beta.1
Node 10.2.0
Chromium 66.0.3359.181
The problem I'm having is importing a module. I created the following protocol:
protocol.registerFileProtocol('client', (request, callback) => {
var url = request.url.substr(8);
callback({path: path.join(__dirname, url)});
});
The output of the protocol is the correct path
"/Users/adviner/Projects/Client/src/ClientsApp/app.js"
I have the following module app.js with the following code:
export function square() {
return 'hello';
}
in my index.html I import the module like so:
<script type="module" >
import square from 'client://app.js';
console.log(square());
</script>
But I keep getting the error:
app.js/:1 Failed to load module script: The server responded with a non-JavaScript MIME type of "". Strict MIME type checking is enforced for module scripts per HTML spec.
I'm done searches but can't seem to find a solution. Can anyone suggest a way I can make this work?
Thanks
This is a tricky question and i will refer to Electron#12011 and this GitHub Gist for a deeper explaination but the core learning is that the corresponding HTML spec, disallows import via file://
(For XSS reasons) and a protocol must have the mime types defined.
The file protocol you use client://
has to set the correct mime-types when serving the files. Currently i would guess they are not set when you define the protocol via protocol.registerBufferProtocol
thus you recive a The server responded with a non-JavaScript MIME type of ""
, the gist above has a code sample on how to do it.
Edit: I just want to emphasize the other answers here do only cover the absolute minimum basics implementation with no consideration of exceptions, security, or future changes. I highly recommend taking the time and read trough the gist I linked.
To confirm: this is there for security reasons.
However, in the event that you just need to get it deployed:
Change "target": "es2015"
to "target": "es5"
in your tsconfig.json file
Based on flcoder solution for older Electron version.
Electron 5.0
const { protocol } = require('electron')
const nfs = require('fs')
const npjoin = require('path').join
const es6Path = npjoin(__dirname, 'www')
protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged([{ scheme: 'es6', privileges: { standard: true, secure: true } }])
app.on('ready', async () => {
protocol.registerBufferProtocol('es6', (req, cb) => {
nfs.readFile(
npjoin(es6Path, req.url.replace('es6://', '')),
(e, b) => { cb({ mimeType: 'text/javascript', data: b }) }
)
})
await createWindow()
})
Attention! The path always seems to be transformed to lowercase
<script type="module" src="es6://path/main.js"></script>
Sorry Viziionary, not enough reputation to answer the comment.
I've now done it like this:
https://gist.github.com/jogibear9988/3349784b875c7d487bf4f43e3e071612
my problem was, I also wanted to support modules which are imported via none relative path's, so I don't need to transpile my code.