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Cannot find module '/snapshot/<My project>/node_modules/mapnik/lib/binding/mapnik_settings.js' after packaging

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Hey there 😃, I’m trying to package my application and all works fine, but when I try to run the packaged executable, I get thrown the following error:

Error: Cannot find module '/snapshot/<My Project>/node_modules/mapnik/lib/binding/mapnik_settings.js'
1) If you want to compile the package/file into executable, please pay attention to compilation warnings and specify a literal in 'require' call. 2) If you don't want to compile the package/file into executable and want to 'require' it from filesystem (likely plugin), specify an absolute path in 'require' call using process.cwd() or process.execPath.
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:545:15)
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1280:46)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:472:25)
    at Module.require (module.js:594:17)
    at Module.require (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1159:31)
    at require (internal/module.js:11:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/snapshot/<My Project>/node_modules/mapnik/lib/mapnik.js:8:16)
    at Module._compile (pkg/prelude/bootstrap.js:1254:22)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:661:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:563:32)

I know that this has something to do with the module Mapnik, but the file is there and all works fine when running with node. I’ve read that this maybe has something to do with paths declared with __dirname…?