sindresorhus/electron-util

Error reported in renderer process

sage-z opened this issue · 4 comments

sage-z commented

The 'is.development' variable uses the 'electron-is-dev' package, but this package 'must be used from the Electron main process'.

As a result, I won't be able to use 'electron-util' in my renderer process.

sindresorhus commented

The 'is.development' variable uses the 'electron-is-dev' package, but this package 'must be used from the Electron main process'.

electron-util uses an older version of that package which can be used in either process. I think you're problem is rather that you're using the latest Electron, which doesn't enable the remote module by default.

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sage-z commented

The 'is.development' variable uses the 'electron-is-dev' package, but this package 'must be used from the Electron main process'.

electron-util uses an older version of that package which can be used in either process. I think you're problem is rather that you're using the latest Electron, which doesn't enable the remote module by default.

#37

Yes, not only that, statements like "process.platform === 'Darwin'" are not valid in the Renderer process, because there are no process objects in the Renderer process.

It may also have something to do with my use of Webpack and TypeScript builds...

vraravam commented

I have the same problem - unable to upgrade to electron v14 since it fails with the same issue here. Can we have a version of electron-util that uses v2.0.0 of electron-is-dev?

vraravam commented

any updates on this please? This is harming us from upgrading to electron v14.

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