INIT_CWD not always accurate in CLI

Describe the bug Adding the platform results in a strange file-not-found error, although the file exists.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Use rather recent Ionic templated app which generates web and apk builds nicely
2. Run npx cap add @capacitor-community/electron
3. Get error about missing configuration

Expected behavior It should add the capacitor-community electron platform

Screenshots

➜ npx cap add @capacitor-community/electron

> @capacitor-community/electron@1.3.2 capacitor:add
> node dist/cap-scripts.js add

⠋ Adding Electron platformError: capacitor.config.json does not exist, did you setup capacitor in your project root?
✖ Adding Electron platform: capacitor.config.json does not exist, did you setup capacitor in your project root?
(node:4565) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: capacitor.config.json does not exist, did you setup capacitor in your project root?
    at Object.n [as doAdd] (/home/riot/src/isomer/isomer_modules/leerstandsmelder/leerstandsmelder-2/frontend/leerstandsmelder-ionic-ng-autoentities/node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron/dist/cap-scripts.js:6:1016)
    at /home/riot/src/isomer/isomer_modules/leerstandsmelder/leerstandsmelder-2/frontend/leerstandsmelder-ionic-ng-autoentities/node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron/dist/cap-scripts.js:12:363
    at Object.g [as runTask] (/home/riot/src/isomer/isomer_modules/leerstandsmelder/leerstandsmelder-2/frontend/leerstandsmelder-ionic-ng-autoentities/node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron/dist/cap-scripts.js:2:1902)
    at i (/home/riot/src/isomer/isomer_modules/leerstandsmelder/leerstandsmelder-2/frontend/leerstandsmelder-ionic-ng-autoentities/node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron/dist/cap-scripts.js:12:311)
    at /home/riot/src/isomer/isomer_modules/leerstandsmelder/leerstandsmelder-2/frontend/leerstandsmelder-ionic-ng-autoentities/node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron/dist/cap-scripts.js:12:718
    at Object.parcelRequire.Focm../common (/home/riot/src/isomer/isomer_modules/leerstandsmelder/leerstandsmelder-2/frontend/leerstandsmelder-ionic-ng-autoentities/node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron/dist/cap-scripts.js:12:915)
    at f (/home/riot/src/isomer/isomer_modules/leerstandsmelder/leerstandsmelder-2/frontend/leerstandsmelder-ionic-ng-autoentities/node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron/dist/cap-scripts.js:1:468)
    at parcelRequire.FoEN (/home/riot/src/isomer/isomer_modules/leerstandsmelder/leerstandsmelder-2/frontend/leerstandsmelder-ionic-ng-autoentities/node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron/dist/cap-scripts.js:1:771)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/riot/src/isomer/isomer_modules/leerstandsmelder/leerstandsmelder-2/frontend/leerstandsmelder-ionic-ng-autoentities/node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron/dist/cap-scripts.js:1:1023)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1015:30)
(node:4565) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). To terminate the node process on unhandled promise rejection, use the CLI flag `--unhandled-rejections=strict` (see https://nodejs.org/api/cli.html#cli_unhandled_rejections_mode). (rejection id: 2)
(node:4565) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Debian Sid
• Version:
  • npm: 7.3.0
  • ionic: 6.12.3

Additional context The capacitor configuration exists and has been used to add android and ios platforms already:

➜ cat capacitor.config.json 
{
  "appId": "de.foobar.app",
  "appName": "foobar",
  "bundledWebRuntime": false,
  "npmClient": "npm",
  "webDir": "www",
  "plugins": {
    "SplashScreen": {
      "launchShowDuration": 0
    }
  },
  "cordova": {}
}

[cmlad]

Facing exactly the same issue and the linked comment didn’t help.

The code [1] makes the search go 3 levels up, and so for me it’s looking for the config file in my home dir.

I am brand new to Node, but the workaround I found was to just set INIT_CWD to a dir 3 levels deep, in this case the electron dir that was already created:

export INIT_CWD=/home/XXX/src/YYY/node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron
npx cap add @capacitor-community/electron

Running from within a child dir didn’t work.

To repro on a brand new system:

# Install NVM
curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install.sh | bash

# Install latest Node (v15.5.1) and npm (0.37.2)
nvm install node

# Install Ionic (6.12.3)
npm install -g @ionic/cli

# Create an app
ionic start ZZZ sidemenu --type=react --capacitor

# Build (after CD-ing into the dir). I also tried ionic build, same result
npm run build

# Try to add electron and get same error as OP
npx cap add @capacitor-community/electron

One guess could be that my capacitor version is 2.4.6, but the docs seem to require 2.3.0 (Note: these instructions require a Capacitor version of ^2.3.0)

[1] https://github.com/capacitor-community/electron/blob/main/cap-scripts/common.ts#L49

[bnsouza]

Facing exactly the same issue and the linked comment didn’t help.

The code [1] makes the search go 3 levels up, and so for me it’s looking for the config file in my home dir.

[1] https://github.com/capacitor-community/electron/blob/main/cap-scripts/common.ts#L49

I have installed today the plugin and have the same error: capacitor.config.json does not exist.

• OS: macOs Catalina 10.15.7.
• npm: 7.3.0
• node: v15.14.0

I saw this issue and this comment and tried to declare the INIT_CWD env but the error still there. So I debugged the code and saw the INIT_CWD was returning the webapp folder and not the node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron folder.

So I replaced function i(){const r=process.env.INIT_CWD;return e.join(r,"../","../","../")}

for function i(){const r=process.env.INIT_CWD;return e.join(r,"/")}

on node_modules/@capacitor-community/electron/dist/cap-scripts.js and it worked…

I don’t know if this is because of node/npm version or because of macOs… So I have changed the common.ts and made a PR…

I hope this can help others!