unable to use conf inside a webworker

Hi there,

I’m using conf inside a webworker and experiencing some issues in making it work. The webworker is initiated from Electron, but has nodeIntegrationInWorker and nodeIntegration at all places so the context there is of NodeJS, not browser ~ electron one.

(When I want to use config file from the main process of electron, Im using electron-store 😃 )

The error Im getting is the following: After digging a little inside the error, it got me to these lines in conf’s index.js: as you can see here, the cache deletion is being targeted at the wrong path when using the __filename , probably on runtime this special variable is being translated into this not-so-nice electron path 😞

I also tried to use electron-store (although the webworker has a node context) but it gave this error:

Will be happy to get some advise about it, or if it’s something that needs to be added to this awesome library, I’d be happy to contribute 😎

thanks!

[sindresorhus]

Can the try/catch also be added there? (even if inside the catch nothing special happens?)

Sure

[sindresorhus]

Yeah, we should just remove that logic as it won’t work with ESM anyway.

The problem is that it’s inconvenient for every user to have to find the path to their package.json, load the JSON, parse it, and then get those properties out of it themselves. Maybe we could add a new option called importMeta at the same time. It could accept import.meta. We could then use import.meta.url to find the package.json. I’m open to other ideas.