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Uncaught Exception: Cannot find module ../package.json

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What is the problem

The module raises an exception:

Uncaught Exception:
Error: Cannot find module '/home/myuser/projects/myproject/main/package.json'

How to reproduce

Include require("electron-reload")(app.getAppPath() + "../renderer") in the entrypoint of the program.

Additional information

This happens with Electron 5.0.6 Apparently, getAppPath() points to the entry point of the program, which in this case is /home/myuser/projects/myproject/main/main.js. The problem is that package.json is in /home/myuser/projects/myproject/ not in /home/myuser/projects/myproject/main. I see no way of specifying the relative path of package.json with respect to getAppPath()

Issue Analytics

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Created 4 years ago
Comments:8 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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marcoanconacommented, Jul 25, 2019

For the records, 1.4.1 works for my setting. Thanks!

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yan-fotocommented, Jul 15, 2019

So it turned out that __filename returns the location of electron-reload and not the parent file requireing it. So I was wrong. But I changed it to const mainFile = module.parent.filename and I suppose it should work now. I’ll publish a new version and you can try it then.

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