Packaging error: "Cannot run with Node 10.x.x"

[memuller]

Trying to build the packages using recent Node versions ( >= 10.x) results in:

CANNOT RUN WITH NODE 10.0.0
Electron Packager requires Node 4.0 or above.

This is due to a bug in electron-packager, where Node versions >= 10.0 evaluate as inferior than 4 (?!) . The bug is detailed here and has been fixed as of electron-packager 12.0.2.

Simply updating the required electron-packager version fixes the issue.

How to replicate

nvm use v10.5.0
npm run build