Packaging doesn't include docx type files.

I am using a docxtemplater on main.dev which is called with ipc. In here, I write data to different docx templates which lies in /app/main-helpers folder.

The sample code that I use for the templatePath can be find in below.

const templatePath = path.join( path.dirname(__filename), 'main-helpers', 'docx-templates', 'single-location-count-control-template.docx' );

Before packaging everything works due to webpack is working in /app folder and the ipc event can find the docx items. After packaging the ipc event cannot find the path, probably because it is not packaged.

Any idea on how to load this folder with webpack on packaging.

[ghost]

Based on @dayfine 's comments how to solve this issue.

I made a deep analysis of our code that is using this boilerplate as its base. The problem is occurring because of the reasons that dayfine is indicated.

Inside the main package.json, we have a build configuration that shows the files as an Array. This array is implemented to the project as the bare minimum. Thanks to webpack, these things will be packaged in most of the projects. In our case, the problem was we were never importing the mentioned folder, so webpack cannot handle to carry them to either main.prod.js or dist/ folder.

With investigating the asar resources structure, I have understanded that the main.prod.js is still lying in the same level as in development environment app/.

So adding the folders that is never imported to any of the project files (only defined as absolute paths) is helped me solve this bug (along with 2 unpackaged folders).

As it can be seen that main.prod.js is directly listed in the files section, you should import all other folder and files based on main.dev.js’s folder level.

[Ancinek]

@musyilmaz Hey there, I’m having a similar issues. In the app folder I have defined a scripts directory with couple of binary scripts inside. I’ve added this do the files so it currently looks like this:

"files": [
      "dist/",
      "node_modules/",
      "scripts/",
      "app.html",
      "main.prod.js",
      "main.prod.js.map",
      "package.json"
    ],

When I run npm run package the files are still not included in the .asar package 😕 Do I have to import those files from the code (so they go through webpack)? Would really appreciate your help!