Electron-packager Not allowed to load local resource

When launching my app with electron there is no problems to do that:

mainWindow.loadURL(${__dirname}/…/build/index.html) But when packaging it with electron-packager and launching the .exe file I get this error in the console:

Not allowed to load local resource: file:///***/index.html (pointing to my index.html)

[malept]

Since the original issue reporter has not responded to the request for additional information in about two weeks, I’m going to assume that they either found the answer in another manner or decided not to pursue this issue. If I’m incorrect, they can respond with answers to the questions posed, and I’ll reopen.

[rkpatel33]

settings.js exported a dict that looks like the below. I used root: path.resolve('./') with the single dot even though this file is one dir deep bc when running from npm run it seemed to resolve to where the npm command was run from, i.e. project root dir. I guess this was causing issues in the build bc when I changed it to root: path.join(__dirname, '../'), everything worked fine.

More generally, I was wondering if there is a solution/setup where I can source everything from paths relative to the project root dir (like require statements as well as path.join()'s) so that you don’t have to worry about keeping paths up to date if you just move a file to a diff directory. If I set up a global var and use that in a path join in a require statement like this:

require(path.join(global.PROJECT_ROOT + '/' + rootPath))

It breaks my Eslint and VS Code IntelliSense, I guess expectedly. In a Webpack setting this is possible but just not sure if it is in an Electron project setting.

Thx.