`AppImage` does not start, misses dependency

I wanted to create an AppImage from sveltekit-electron. Since I’m on Linux Mint, I changed the

In package.json, I changed the build:electron script entry:

"build:electron": "electron-builder -l --config build.config.json",

In build.config.json, I added

  "linux": {
      "target": "AppImage"
    },

After running pnpm run build, there’s an *.AppImage file in dist. When trying to run that file, an error is printed:

$ dist/Svelte\ Electron-0.0.1.AppImage
A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: Cannot find module 'jsonfile'
Require stack:
- /tmp/.mount_SvelteKlfyNf/resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-window-state/index.js
- /tmp/.mount_SvelteKlfyNf/resources/app.asar/src/electron.cjs
- 
    at Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:887:15)
    at Function.n._resolveFilename (electron/js2c/browser_init.js:257:1128)
    at Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:732:27)
    at Function.f._load (electron/js2c/asar_bundle.js:5:12913)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:959:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:88:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/tmp/.mount_SvelteKlfyNf/resources/app.asar/node_modules/electron-window-state/index.js:5:18)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1078:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1108:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:935:32)

From there on, the process hangs without opening a window. Because it hangs, I was able to inspect the temporary directory and could confirm there is no module jsonfile to be found. I did unpack the resources/app.asar archive as well. In the unpacked *.asar, in file node_modules/electron-window-state/package.json there’s a dependency "jsonfile": "^4.0.0" so one should think the builder should pick this up.

[Naratna]

I was able to successfully build the AppImage with pnpm by adding public-hoist-pattern=* to .npmrc, as pointed out in this issue

[ghostdevv]

Makes sense!