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Upgrade electron to 5.0.0 beta fails

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Found an issue or bug with electron-vue? Tell me all about it!

# I was trying to upgrade the electron from 4.0.0 to 5.0.0 beta with yarn upgrade electron@beta, but the project raises errors when running npm run dev and the screen is blank.

Describe the issue / bug.

# Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined at (index):1 Uncaught ReferenceError: module is not defined at renderer.js:1

How can I reproduce this problem?

# npm run dev

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Tell me about your development environment.

Node version:v11.11.0
NPM version:6.9.0
vue-cli version: (if necessary)
Operating System:

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:6

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zahergcommented, Jun 18, 2019

You should specify the following option in src/main/index.js file

    webPreferences: {
      nodeIntegration: true,
    },

You can check my full answer here https://github.com/SimulatedGREG/electron-vue/issues/855#issuecomment-503002257

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heronggencommented, Jun 19, 2019

hey @betterRunner check the answer here #855 and especially the last comment #855 (comment)

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