Ability to pass additional arguments to Electron via electron-forge-start

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This is less of a bug and more of a suggestion/improvement.

I am working on an Electron application that has two modes of operation (player and editor). By default the player is started unless the --editor flag is present on the CLI. In that case, the editor is launched.

I would definitely be useful to be able to pass CLI arguments to the Electron application via electron-forge start.

Currently, passing anything that is not a valid option for electron-forge-start will cause the command to halt on the fact it doesn’t understand the argument, meaning I have to either package my application to test the CLI flags or launch my application via node_modules/.bin/electron, which defeats the purpose of electron-forge start.

[onassar]

Any chance someone could show an example? I’m having trouble. Executing as follows: electron-forge start --- arg1value arg2value

Is this the correct format? If so, how can they be accessed in main.js? Trying with process.argv to no avail.

Electron version: 1.8.2

UPDATE: Ahh, just so #209. For anyone coming to this issue, it’s been updated to require two dashes: electron-forge start -- arg1value arg2value

They are indeed accessible via process.argv

Thanks team!

[lucaplus]

did anyone try this method and did it work successfully? I tried to pass --- myArg and got errors like this:

$ yarn start --- --lang=fr
yarn run v1.12.3
$ electron-forge start --- --lang=fr
error: unknown option `---'
error Command failed with exit code 1.

Note that I used yarn to call electron-forge. electron-forge version:

└─ electron-forge@5.2.3

For future searches: you have to use the 2 dashes + 2 dashes for yarn

yarn start -- -- --lang=fr