Crash when importing Google Cloud Speech to Text

Describe the bug I tried importing @google-cloud/speech, but running yarn electron:serve will eventually result in a crash.

To Reproduce

vue create vue-electron-test
cd vue-electron-test
vue add electron-builder (choose the latest Electron - 6, at the time of writing the post)
yarn add @google-cloud/speech

Add to background.js:

import speech from "@google-cloud/speech";
const client = new speech.SpeechClient({keyFilename: "credentials.json"});

Then, run:

yarn electron:serve

Expected behavior I expect the line of const client = new speech.SpeechClient({keyFilename: "credentials.json"}); to work normally, i.e. to initialize the SpeehClient() instance while using the credentials in credentials.json

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Environment (please complete the following information):

• OS and version: Windows 10 Pro 1903 build 18362.3356
• node version: 10.16.3
• npm version: 6.9.0
• yarn version: 1.17.3
• vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder version : ^1.4.0
• electron version: 6.0.9
• other vue plugins used: Nothing
• custom config for vcp-electron-builder: Nothing
• (if possible) link to your repo: No repo, but no need for it - just follow the steps to reproduce.

Additional context The project itself is under C:\repositories\speech-to-text-test

[nklayman]

Try marking @google-cloud/speech as an external by setting your vue.config.js to:

module.exports = {
  pluginOptions: {
    electronBuilder: {
      externals: ['@google-cloud/speech']
    }
  }
}

[avi12]

Oh, I’d like to mention that in order to get it to work, the parameter --type must have the value raw, i.e. make sure that in the SoX’s arguments list, there’s "--type", "raw", Plus, I discovered that I do need to add the node-record-lpcm16 to pluginOptions.electronBuilder.externals in vue.config.js

Other than that, it works flawlessly!