How to get the original path of a portable Electron app?

Question

I have an Portable Electron App (packed with: electron-builder + asar, portable build) on Windows. I try to get the application path but it returns a path within the user\\t

Answer 1

I had a lot of trouble with this and was finally able to solve the issue by replacing __dirname by '.', see working example below :

const path = require('path')
const myAppPath = path.resolve('.', 'myapp.exe');