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require('fs-extra') giving error in electron main process

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var app = require('app'); var fs = require('fs-extra'); var builder = require('xmlbuilder')

at line 2 it is giving error:

App threw an error when running [SyntaxError: missing ) after argument list] This code is written in electron main process which uses node.js

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Created 6 years ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

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jprichardsoncommented, Apr 8, 2017

I’d add to this @gaikwadrahul20 - I’ve been using fs-extra in Electron for 1.5 years now (both renderer and main), and I’ve had no problems.

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RyanZimcommented, Apr 7, 2017

@gaikwadrahul20 Please post the full error, including the stack trace. I suspect this is a problem with your code, not ours.

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