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node-abi needs to be updated

See original GitHub issue

Currently, running electron-forge start with electron version 4.x.x gives the error

An unhandled error has occurred inside Forge:
Could not detect abi for version 4.0.1 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron
Error: Could not detect abi for version 4.0.1 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron
    at Object.getAbi (C:\node_modules\node-abi\index.js:30:9)

Is there much that needs to be changed before electron-forge supports electron 4.x.x?

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Created 5 years ago
Comments:5 (1 by maintainers)

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aap82commented, Feb 4, 2019

For anyone else that runs into this problem and if you’re using yarn: go into yarn.lock file, find entry for node-abi, delete it, then re-run yarn.

See https://github.com/yarnpkg/yarn/issues/4986#issuecomment-395036563

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ospfrancocommented, Feb 4, 2020

I did a fresh installation with current version and I’m getting an updated version of this error:

An unhandled error has occurred inside Forge:
Could not detect abi for version 8.0.0 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron

modifying the yarn.lock file is not helping