Help getting started

I’m trying to use spectron with mocha. In my beforeEach, I have: this.app = new Application({path: "bin/package/pluginContainer.html"}); return this.appstart(); This times out after 2000ms. What am I doing wrong? Am I passing the wrong path to Application? I didn’t see a description anywhere of what that path is supposed to point to.

Thanks, -Josh

[kevinsawicki]

@JoshuaBStevens so you’ll need to specify the path to electron as the path and specify the path to your app as an argument.

something like the following but with the paths adjusted for your setup:

// Path to Electron
var electronPath = path.join(__dirname, '..', 'node_modules', '.bin', 'electron')
if (process.platform === 'win32') electronPath += '.cmd'

// Path to your application
var appPath = path.join(__dirname, 'bin', 'package')

var app = new Application({
  path: electronPath,
  args: [appPath]
})
app.start()

Hope this helps.

[AmanChhabra-A746623]

HI @kevinsawicki @JoshuaBStevens I have my electron application in another directory and spectron application in some other directory. How can I set path to run electron from spectron application?