npmRebuild is not respected

• Version: 5.12.1

• Target: windows ia32

I have several native modules built and in my app’s node_modules, i do not want these rebuilt.

electron-rebuild is also excluding my native module from being packged in the asar because it ‘contains executable code’

how do i prevent that? the module needs to be packed in the asar

my dev package.json looks like

{
  "build": {
    "appId": "com.something.lobby",
    "app-category-type": "com.something.lobby",
    "npmRebuild": "false",
    "win": {
      "target": ["nsis"],
      "icon": "resources/windows/icon.ico",
      "arch": "ia32"
    },
    "nsis": {
      "oneClick": true,
      "installerHeaderIcon": "resources/windows/setup-icon.ico"
    },
    "mac": {
      "icon": "resources/osx/icon.icns"
    },
    "dmg": {
      "icon": "resources/osx/dmg-icon.icns",
      "background": "resources/osx/dmg-background.png"
    }
  },
  "directories": {
    "buildResources": "resources",
    "app": "build"
  },
"devDependencies":{
...
}, "scripts":{
...
}
}

[skastr0]

I believe that changing "npmRebuild": "false" to "npmRebuild": false should make it work.

Confirmed it working for me.

[Usnul]

I know this is necro-posting, but I ran into the same issue. I believe it would be beneficial to validate options like these and provide some kind of feedback to the user if the option has an invalid value. Like string instead of a boolean in this case.