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Plugin vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder does not have a generator to invoke

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Describe the bug I just created a fresh project with the @vue/cli and the installed the plugin by running vue add electron-builder but the next thing appears in my terminal:

�  Installing vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder...

yarn add v1.13.0
[1/4] Resolving packages...
[2/4] Fetching packages...
info There appears to be trouble with your network connection. Retrying...
✔  Successfully installed plugin: vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder

Plugin vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder does not have a generator to invoke

After that, I can’t use the yarn electron:serve command.

Not a single file of my project has been modified by me or the plugin installation.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

Create a fresh new project by running: vue create app-name
Run vue add electron-builder
Run yarn electron:serve

Expected behavior Serve the project.

Environment (please complete the following information):

OS and version: Windows 7
node version: 12.0.4
yarn version (if used): 1.13.0
vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder version : 1.4.0

Issue Analytics

State:
Created 4 years ago
Comments:7 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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nklaymancommented, Jan 11, 2020

@evanxzj you will need to run vue invoke electron-builder. Vue cli doesn’t work properly when you specify a version of a plugin.

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EvanXzjcommented, Jan 10, 2020

I’ve got the same output with electron-builder@2.0.0-beta.0, vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder@1.4.4 is ok

@nklayman please help!

Ouputs

 vue add electron-builder@2.0.0-beta.0

📦  Installing vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder@2.0.0-beta.0...

> ejs@3.0.1 postinstall /Users/xxxx/projects/xxx/my-wallet/node_modules/app-builder-lib/node_modules/ejs
> node ./postinstall.js

+ vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder@2.0.0-beta.0
added 202 packages from 121 contributors in 22.743s
✔  Successfully installed plugin: vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder@2.0.0-beta.0

Plugin vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder@2.0.0-beta.0 does not have a generator to invoke

Expected behavior Serve the project.

To Reproduce

vue create my-wallet
cd my-wallet
npm run serve  # Ctrl + c  Stop Server
vue add electron-builder@2.0.0-beta.0

Environment

OS:  MacOs 0.13.6
Node: v10.17.0
Npm: v6.12.0
vue-cli:  4.1.2

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