Cannot import @sentry/electron/main as library for main process

Versions + Platform

• [3.0.7] SDK version - @sentry/electron@v3.0.7
• [17.2.0] Electron version - electron@v17.2.0
• [MacOS] Platform - Windows/macOS/Linux

Description

Dear Sentry team,

Currently, when I try to use latest version 3.0.7 and use it for my project, I faced this error below:

And here is my implementation:

import { processTypes } from '../constants';
import isDevEnvironment from './applicationEnvironment';

// eslint-disable-next-line import/no-mutable-exports
let Sentry;

if (process.type === processTypes.renderer) {
  Sentry = require('@sentry/electron/renderer');
} else {
  Sentry = require('@sentry/electron/main');
}

if (!isDevEnvironment) {
  Sentry.init({
    debug: isDevEnvironment,
    dsn: 'DSN_LINK',
    onFatalError: error => {
      // Global uncaught errors will be sent to sentry and then the application will exit
      console.log('Fatal', error); // eslint-disable-line no-console
      process.exit(1);
    },
  });
}

export { Sentry as default };

May I ask for some help with it?

Many thanks ~

[timfish]

You are getting the same error because you are still selecting the main/renderer SDK entry point at runtime.

Whenever you check process.type this is runtime detection. Your bundler doesn’t know what value to expect and subsequently includes both code paths in the bundle.

You need to remove index.js completely and call main/renderer from the earliest point in each process.

You could use the browser/node SDKs but you’d still have similar issues with bundler + runtime detection and you’d lose all the additional features the Electron SDK adds including:

• Native crash reporting
• Additional context and breadcrumbs
• Merging of scope and context from multiple processes

[mx51damon]

Hi @timfish, I am not 100% sure I fixed my issue or not, but when I put sentry configuration file as part of entry configuration in webpack, the error is gone …

 entry: [
    IS_DEV && 'webpack/hot/poll?1000',
    IS_DEV && 'source-map-support/register',
    IS_DEV && './build/electron.js',
    './src/main/sentry.js',
    './src/main/index.js',
  ].filter(Boolean),

Something like this. Thanks for help mate 👍