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> Important: This approach must be used only in development environment. | ||
> Since the release version of your application the `app` directory should self contain all used files. | ||
In case on development environment your app runs the main process (executed by electron) not inside the `/app` folder. You may need to load the `/app` dependencies manually. Because the app dependencies are be placed at `/app/node_modules` and your main process that is running in a different directory will not have access by default to that directory. | ||
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Instead of duplicating the app dependencies in the development `package.json` it is possible to make the electron main process load the app dependencies manually with an approach like this: | ||
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```js | ||
// Given this file is: /src/browser/main.js | ||
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var path = require('path'); | ||
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var devMode = (process.argv || []).indexOf('--dev') !== -1; | ||
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if (devMode) { | ||
// load the app dependencies | ||
var PATH_APP_NODE_MODULES = path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'app', 'node_modules'); | ||
require('module').globalPaths.push(PATH_APP_NODE_MODULES); | ||
} | ||
``` |