Creating/Starting new project fails with error "Error: Electron version 1.4.15 is either too old or too new"

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Please describe your issue: Created a new application, started the application and received the following error:

App threw an error during load
Error: Electron version 1.4.15 is either too old or too new (While processing preset: "/Users/leifwells/Code/electron/ef-test/node_modules/babel-preset-env/lib/index.js")
    at getTargets (/Users/leifwells/Code/electron/ef-test/node_modules/babel-preset-env/lib/index.js:144:13)
    at buildPreset (/Users/leifwells/Code/electron/ef-test/node_modules/babel-preset-env/lib/index.js:209:17)
    at /Users/leifwells/Code/electron/ef-test/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:317:46
    at Array.map (native)
    at OptionManager.resolvePresets (/Users/leifwells/Code/electron/ef-test/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:275:20)
    at OptionManager.mergePresets (/Users/leifwells/Code/electron/ef-test/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:264:10)
    at OptionManager.mergeOptions (/Users/leifwells/Code/electron/ef-test/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:249:14)
    at OptionManager.init (/Users/leifwells/Code/electron/ef-test/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/options/option-manager.js:368:12)
    at File.initOptions (/Users/leifwells/Code/electron/ef-test/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:216:65)
    at new File (/Users/leifwells/Code/electron/ef-test/node_modules/babel-core/lib/transformation/file/index.js:139:24)

Console output when you run electron-forge with the environment variable DEBUG=electron-forge:*. (Instructions on how to do so here). Please include the stack trace if one exists.

Put the console output here

What command line arguments are you passing?

electron-forge init ef-test
cd ef-test
electron-forge start

What does your config.forge data in package.json look like?

"config": {
    "forge": {
      "make_targets": {
        "win32": [
          "squirrel"
        ],
        "darwin": [
          "zip"
        ],
        "linux": [
          "deb",
          "rpm"
        ]
      },
      "electronPackagerConfig": {},
      "electronWinstallerConfig": {
        "name": "ef_test"
      },
      "electronInstallerDebian": {},
      "electronInstallerRedhat": {},
      "github_repository": {
        "owner": ""
      },
      "windowsStoreConfig": {
        "packageName": "",
        "name": "eftest"
      }
    }
  },

Please provide either a failing minimal testcase (with a link to the code) or detailed steps to reproduce your problem. Using electron-forge init is a good starting point, if that is not the source of your problem.

[janwiemers]

@malept yeah I can confirm it’s working fine now. Thanks

[malept]

The workaround is: pin babel-preset-env to 1.1.8.