node-abi needs to be updated

[c4ss]

Currently, running electron-forge start with electron version 4.x.x gives the error

An unhandled error has occurred inside Forge:
Could not detect abi for version 4.0.1 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron
Error: Could not detect abi for version 4.0.1 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron
    at Object.getAbi (C:\node_modules\node-abi\index.js:30:9)

Is there much that needs to be changed before electron-forge supports electron 4.x.x?

Electron changelog

[malept]

You need to update node-abi to at least 2.5.1. This is a dependency of electron-rebuild:

https://github.com/electron/electron-rebuild/blob/e5dedf40b6a017729b9912bb550979ad8a69d5df/package.json#L38

Consult your package manager's documentation for how to upgrade transitive dependencies (without changing your package.json).

[aap82]

For anyone else that runs into this problem and if you're using yarn: go into yarn.lock file, find entry for node-abi, delete it, then re-run yarn.

See yarnpkg/yarn#4986 (comment)

[luxlux]

BTW: deleting the entry for node-abi works the same way for users of npm and the package-lock.json file.

[ospfranco]

I did a fresh installation with current version and I'm getting an updated version of this error:

An unhandled error has occurred inside Forge:
Could not detect abi for version 8.0.0 and runtime electron.  Updating "node-abi" might help solve this issue if it is a new release of electron

modifying the yarn.lock file is not helping

[skorunka]

Had to delete node_modules and yarn.lock as well.