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Error: Application entry file "build/electron.js" in the "<path>/dist/mac/<app-name>/Contents/Resources/app.asar" does not exist.

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Version: 19.49.0
Target: mac

I’m using create-react-app and also followed below blog post. https://medium.com/@kitze/️-from-react-to-an-electron-app-ready-for-production-a0468ecb1da3

Error: Application entry file "build/electron.js" in the "/Users/jarvis/Dev/sandbox/elec-app/dist/mac/elec-app.app/Contents/Resources/app.asar" does not exist. Seems like a wrong configuration.
    at error (/Users/jarvis/Dev/sandbox/elec-app/node_modules/electron-builder-lib/src/asar/asarFileChecker.ts:7:12)
    at /Users/jarvis/Dev/sandbox/elec-app/node_modules/electron-builder-lib/src/asar/asarFileChecker.ts:33:11
    at next (native)
    at /Users/jarvis/Dev/sandbox/elec-app/node_modules/graceful-fs/polyfills.js:287:18
    at FSReqWrap.oncomplete (fs.js:123:15)
:

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:32
Comments:37 (3 by maintainers)

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patarapolwcommented, Jan 15, 2019

Somehow, setting files work

"build": {
    "files": [
      "dist/**/*",
      "package.json"
    ],
}

33reactions

andymorriscommented, Jan 5, 2018

I was also getting this error (though I’m trying to build on Windows with 19.52.1) and just wanted to note that the workaround described in #2030 worked for me:

Workaround: please add “extends”: null to build.

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