electron-forge make error

[chenzhiguo]

Please describe your issue:
Run command electron-forge make error!

Console output when you run electron-forge with the environment variable DEBUG=electron-forge:*. (Instructions on how to do so here). Please include the stack trace if one exists.

➜  demoVue git:(master) ✗ electron-forge make
✔ Checking your system
✔ Resolving Forge Config
We need to package your application before we can make it
✔ Preparing to Package Application for arch: x64
✔ Compiling Application
⠋ Preparing native dependenciesYou are using the depreceated electron-rebuild API, please switch to using the options object instead
✔ Preparing native dependencies
⠧ Packaging Application
An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge:
Command failed: npm prune --production
npm WARN demovue@1.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! May not delete: /private/var/folders/dq/n8trt1yn3374vbfd712pwsfm0000gn/T/electron-packager/darwin-x64/demovue-darwin-x64/Electron.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/.bin

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/Silence/.npm/_logs/2017-07-31T07_53_55_001Z-debug.log

Error: Command failed: npm prune --production
npm WARN demovue@1.0.0 No repository field.

npm ERR! May not delete: /private/var/folders/dq/n8trt1yn3374vbfd712pwsfm0000gn/T/electron-packager/darwin-x64/demovue-darwin-x64/Electron.app/Contents/Resources/app/node_modules/.bin

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/Silence/.npm/_logs/2017-07-31T07_53_55_001Z-debug.log

    at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:270:12)
    at emitTwo (events.js:125:13)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:213:7)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:921:16)
    at Socket.stream.socket.on (internal/child_process.js:348:11)
    at emitOne (events.js:115:13)
    at Socket.emit (events.js:210:7)
    at Pipe._handle.close [as _onclose] (net.js:549:12)

Project description
It is a new project demo that I use electron-forge init ... create it.
Then, I want to package it without write any code in it.
Error comming...

[MarshallOfSound]

@chenzhiguo npm@5 has issues like these (this is an npm bug)

Please downgrade your version of npm to npm@3 to avoid these bugs. See #269

[chenzhiguo]

oh, my god. Is there any other solution? If I do not want to reduce the npm version.

[MarshallOfSound]

@chenzhiguo There are a few options here

• Wait for npm to fix the bug
• Downgrade to npm@3 (guarunteed to work)
• Downgrade to npm@5.1 (might work)
• Wait for Add option to use custom pruning module packager#690 to be released and use that

[ambroiseRabier]

Had added "electron": "^3.0.6", into my package.json manually, since Jetbrain IDE Webstorm was proposing me to do it. Turn out this make packaging fail with error :

An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge:
Command failed: npm prune --production
module.js:549
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'debug'

I think electron is installed by forge, in node_modules, but you shouldn't list it in package.json.
Just remove the line in package.json and it worked for me.