Does not do anything

I am having a hard time understanding what this really do. Here is my gulp script

// Rebuilds native node modules for Electron.
// More: https://github.com/atom/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/using-native-node-modules.md

'use strict';

var path = require('path');
var Q = require('q');
var electron = require('electron-prebuilt');
var electronPackage = require('electron-prebuilt/package.json');
var rebuild = require('electron-rebuild');
const UTILS = require('./utils');
const PATHS = UTILS.PATHS;

var pathToElectronNativeModules = path.join(__dirname, '..', PATHS.APP, 'node_modules');

rebuild.shouldRebuildNativeModules(electron)
.then(function (shouldBuild) {
    if (!shouldBuild) {
        return true;
    }

    console.log('Rebuilding native modules for Electron at ', pathToElectronNativeModules, '...');

    console.log('installNodeHeaders');
    return rebuild.installNodeHeaders(electronPackage.version)
    .then(function () {
        console.log('rebuildNativeModules');
        return rebuild.rebuildNativeModules(electronPackage.version, pathToElectronNativeModules);
    }).then(function () {
        console.log('preGypFixRun');
        return rebuild.preGypFixRun(pathToElectronNativeModules, true , electron);
    });
})
.then(function () {
    console.log('Rebuilding complete.');
})
.catch(function (err) {
    console.error("Rebuilding error!");
    console.error(err);
});

Now i have a few native modules, some using node-pre-gyp and some not Isn’t electron-rebuild suppose to go into each native module dir and call something like

node-gyp rebuild --target=1.2.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/atom-shell

or

node-pre-gyp rebuild --target=1.2.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://atom.io/download/atom-shell

For me it does not do anything and simply says

Rebuilding complete.

While my modules are not compiled. I have to do it by hand

[developercurtnicholas]

Electron will not find the module to recompile it if it was installed as a devDependency.

So:

1. In your package.json move the module you want to recompile from the devDependecies section to the dependencies section.
2. Then run npm install.
3. Then run .\node_modules.bin\electron-rebuild.cmd or ./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild

If you have problems with step 3 visit https://electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/using-native-node-modules and ensure that electron-rebuild is installed.

If it complains about python then run: npm install --global --production windows-build-tools

Thumbs up so others can see.

[MarshallOfSound]

The new version of electron-rebuild should fix these issues.