Can we launch a node command on a mac without node installed when using electron-packager? #1428
Description
- Node.js Version: v8.11.3
- OS: macOS Sierra
- Scope (install, code, runtime, meta, other?):
- Module (and version) (if relevant):
I have built a desktop app using electron, and packaged it using electron-packager. The app spawns a child process which uses a 'node' command. My goal is to run the app on a clean mac with no node installed. When I try to launch my app on a clean mac, I am facing "/bin/bash: node not found" error. The electron community said that packaged app does have node bundled into it and it's all about passing right env variables to the child process.
I have been trying to do this and facing various issues, the electron community suggested me to use fork method and when I use 'fork' the child process exits immedately with exit code 1, which as per some documentation is due to some uncaughtexception. So if I am going to use fork I need a way to catch that error. When I use exec method I got stdout.on('data'..) to catch it, Is there similar thing for fork?
Or if I use exec or spawn methods I still get the "node not found" error. So how can I pass proper environment for the child process to run the node command? I should be able to use the node bundled inside packaged app, rather than the node from the mac. Any help is very much appreciated. Thanks.
Something to note, I am using 'fixpath()' to set the $PATH on macOS when run from a GUI app. Not sure if this is messing up something in my code. https://www.npmjs.com/package/fix-path
Please find my code below:
'use strict'
const fixPath = require('fix-path');
let func = () => {
fixPath();
const child = childProcess.exec('node /src/index.js --someFlags', {
detached: true,
stdio: 'ignore',
env: {
ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE: 1,
}
});
child.on('error', (err) => {
console.log("\n\t\tERROR: spawn failed! (" + err + ")");
});
child.stderr.on('data', function(data) {
console.log('stdout: ' +data);
});
child.on('exit', (code, signal) => {
console.log(code);
console.log(signal);
});
child.unref();
}