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using browserify with electron

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I’m building react based desktop pplication with github electron. Electron allow to use node.js features in browser code. However I still need browserify for compile react files.

The issue is that with standard browserify policies node code goes invalid. require no longer work as expected, __filename and __dirname start showing things which is not close to ‘on-disk’ reality, etc.

Is there is any kind of vision how it’s possible to friend electron with browserify?

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Created 8 years ago
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angrykoalacommented, Oct 12, 2017

Uncaught Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again

Error thrown when trying this when using browserify+vue on my app.js:

"browserify": "browserify -t vueify browserify --ignore-missing --no-builtins --no-commondir --insert-global-vars=\"global\" --no-browser-field -e app.js -o resources/bundle.js --debug",

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bernardoadccommented, Sep 9, 2016

http://maxgfeller.com/blog/2016/08/30/electron-browserify/

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