I recently started using electron. I have successfully completed the 1st phase by creating a hello world app (included files index.html, main.js, package.json). Now I am trying to package the app using electron-packager but getting this error
Steps I have followed:
- Created a project directory named helloworld.
- Initialized the project directory using
npm init
command.
- Then installed electron using
npm install electron --save-dev
.
- Then created the javascript and html files as main.js and index.html respectively.
- Then used
npm start
to execute the application.
- Then installed electron-packager using
npm install electron-packager
.
- Now the problem is coming in this step when i am trying to pacakge the app using command
electron-packager .
Perform a global package install:
npm install -g electron-packager
The -g
flag tells NPM to install the package globally which makes the command electron-packager
available in your PATH.
If you don't want to do a global install you can install it locally and run with npx
.
npm install -D electron-packager
npx electron-packager .
Alternatively, you can reference it straight from the node_modules folder (not recommended).
./node_modules/electron-packager/cli.js
I might be totally off with it but my fix was that I put the dot without space just make sure in you package.json file its "start": "electron ."
Fixed it for me at least
If you have installed it locally with:
npm install electron-packager
Then, it's not gonna work, install it globally as a cli:
npm install -g electron-packager
You can also get it through:
"node_modules/electron-packager/cli.js" . --all --asar
After All, if you don't get it working, install electron-packager.
Then, go to your package.json. And beneath your start scripts. Make another string named "build" and give it a value of the electron-packager command you want to run:
...
"scripts": {
"start": "electron .",
"build": "electron-packager . --asar --all"
},
...
Then, go in command prompt or terminal or bash.
Then, type:
npm run build
There are two cases to make it work...
as discussed above, install electron globally using -g,
i.e. using npm install -g electron-packager
change in your package.json,
"scripts": {
"start": "electron-packager ."
},
and then give command npm start.
This way it worked for me..
You've to install electron-packager globally, that's why it shows 'electron-packager' is not recognized as an internal or external command
For this, you have to install electron-package globally
You can install globally by using -g option.
Example:-
npm install -g electron-packager
OR npm i -g electron-packager
//i stands for install