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Can't set Electron environmental variables in packaged application without Webpack?

See original GitHub issue

Is it possible to pass ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE=true and ELECTRON_NO_ATTACH_CONSOLE=true without setting up Webpack? If so, can someone explain how? I’ve searched all day and tried a bunch of ideas I had, but no luck with any of them.

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Created 5 years ago
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MarshallOfSoundcommented, Sep 5, 2018

Setting ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE and ELECTRON_NO_ATTACH_CONSOLE in webpack will do absolutely nothing to Electron. Setting them in JS with process.env. ELECTRON_NO_ATTACH_CONSOLE = true in your main process will also do nothing.

Those two environment variables to be set before your app is launched in the initial environment. I.e. you need to set those variables either from your launcher script or your terminal before launching

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Slapboxcommented, Sep 5, 2018

@MarshallOfSound thank you so much. I searched for a looooong time and couldn’t find a clear explanation which left my somewhat shooting in the dark.

It would be great to add that information in some form here: https://electronjs.org/docs/api/environment-variables

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