Unable to find electron-prebuilt's version number

[MathijsvVelde]

Le-me PC:app Le-me$ ./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild 

Unable to find electron-prebuilt's version number, either install it or specify an explicit version

Y U NO looking for a global installed 'electron-prebuilt' module and/or define an available version in your package.json@devDependencies!!

Thanks!!

[anaisbetts]

Good news! There are two ways to fix this:

• Install electron-prebuilt as a dependency
• Specify the version of Electron you're using

[MathijsvVelde]

OK, some good points, BUT...
I use a lot of global modules to keep my projects clean.

I also use(d) Asar@<=0.8.2 for packaging my app, that didn't work because of the electron-prebuilt dependency, so I had to remove it...

It also works when I rebuild like this:

./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild -v 0.34.3 -e /usr/local/lib/node_modules/electron-prebuilt

But still, Y U NO looking for the global 'electron-prebuilt' module like U do for the local one?

[zeke]

Best practice is to install electron-prebuilt as a devDependency so your project is portable and consistent across environments. This avoids the "works on my machine" problem.

[darkguy2008]

I'm still getting the same error when following NodeGit's guidelines for native modules here: https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/master/docs/tutorial/using-native-node-modules.md . I have installed electron-prebuilt, but it says thay it has been deprecated and that electron should be used, but I already had electron, so... is it deprecated or not? what should be the new path to take?

[MarshallOfSound]

@darkguy2008 It is depreceated, you should install the electron module not electron-prebuilt

[darkguy2008]

@MarshallOfSound yeah, and that's what brought me here, because I was still seeing the same error. I'll clean up my repo and try again :/

Edit: Yup, installing just electron has no effect. I had to install electron-rebuild and then manually run the electron-rebuild command so it built nodegit correctly and fix an initializing DLL error with electron. I'm working on a private project, but a small use-case would be to make a small electron app with nodegit as dependency and try to call a sample routine to load a local repo, that's enough to make it error. If you run node-rebuild and try again, it just works.

As a solution, I installed electron-rebuild and put it as my postinstall script. No more errors! 👍

[lazzy07]

I was trying to build opencv4nodejs and,
adding this script below and executing it did fix the problem (No need to install electron-rebuild)
"electron-rebuild": "electron-rebuild -v 5.0.4 -w opencv4nodejs",

[deepanshumehtaa]

Best practice is to install electron-prebuilt as a devDependency so your project is portable and consistent across environments. This avoids the "works on my machine" problem.

Do you Mean This??
npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild

[jahbini]

npm install --save-dev electron-rebuild
Did not work. Alas