Electron package

I love this project, it becomes so easy to develop beautiful GUI for python apps and the abstraction is great. In my last project, I switched from the Chrome browser to Electron so I could customise the windows appearance and behaviour. It works almost flawlessly; I can’t package the app anymore.

I also tried to use a local Electron release and use relative paths

# eel.browsers.set_path('electron', 'node_modules/electron/dist/Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/electron')
eel.browsers.set_path('electron', 'Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/electron')

And tried adding the Electron app to the pyinstaller command:

python3 -m eel main.py web --noconfirm --noconsole --onefile \
--add-data /AbsolutePathTo/Electron.app:Electron.app \
--add-data electron_main.js:Electron.app/Contents/Resources/app

My different tries result in different errors such as FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: 'Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/electron': 'Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/electron' () or Cannot find module '/Users/xyz'. Require stack: /usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron/dist/Electron.app/Contents/Resources/default_app.asar/main.js

I started from the Eelectron example with macOS 10.15 / python 3.7.7 / pyinstaller 3.6

Has anyone achieved this and is willing to help me?

[roomm]

Same here but in windows. When packaging (without --onefile), there exists a file in \node_modules\electron\dist\resources\ named default_app.asar with ~100kb. If I remove that file and then create a folder with the same name with the main.js inside, the app neither run nor any message is shown nor in windows cmd.

[lucasadsouza]

Some lucky here, I was able to package it using python -m eel --add-data="main.js;." --add-data="node_modules;node_modules" --add-data="package-lock.json;." --add-data="package.json;." --noconfirm main.py web this error you guys are getting because it’s missing package-lock.json and package.json

but when I try use --onefile I get this error when executing the exe :v