Better solution for electron <base> url (or just document it)

Hi,

I am trying to get my app running with Electron but no luck. When building this for iOS the iOS Simulator can start the app without problems.

For some reason it cannot load the app.js and app.css. I use the dist dir and configured this in my capacitor.config.json

{
  "appId": "com.ex.ample.com",
  "appName": "Example",
  "bundledWebRuntime": false,
  "webDir": "dist"
}

My npm run build and npx cap copy commands run fine without any errors. I use Fedora 26, if that matters 😉

Any idea?

Thanks!

[basher]

UPDATE:

I now have working static paths to my JS/CSS etc in CRA + Capacitor + Electron.

Having scoured the CRA repo for static asset bugs & fixes, this is the solution that works for me:

1. Removed <base href="./"> from .\public\index.html as it does nothing.
2. Added "homepage": "." to .\package.json in root directory. Therefore, npm run build followed by npx cap copy ensures that all the static asset paths in .\electron\app\index.html are now src="./static/".

[jcesarmobile]

Related to https://github.com/ionic-team/capacitor/issues/693.

@mlynch maybe we should also use a web server as on iOS and Android to serve the files instead of serving from file:?