How to add folders and files to electron build using electron-builder

Question

I am creating an electron which running react generated from create-react-app. Then i add nedbjs(a persistence database) and camojs(ODM for nedb) as dependency. To connect r

Answer 1

Was running into issues with this as well, and found the files property to be the solution. This particular example copies a directory from my node_modules into the final build directory.

i.e. on Windows, it copies the files to: yourapp.exe/$PLUGINSDIR/app-64.7z/resources/app/

builder.config.js

module.exports = {
  productName: "myapp",
  appId: "com.reflex.app",
  directories: {
    output: "build",
  },
  files: [
    "package.json",
    {
      // SOLUTION
      from: "yourdirectoryorfilenamehere",
      to: "yourdirectoryorfilenamehere",
      filter: ["**/*"], // This will recursively include all sub-directories & files
    },
  ],
  // ... other configuration here ...
};

And then you can access the final files via a script in src/renderer/ or src/main

import { app } from "electron"; // For main process

/* 
Or use this instead for the renderer process: 
import { remote } from 'electron' // For renderer process
const { app } = remote
*/

const path = require("path");
const yourdirectoryorfilenamehere = path.join(app.getAppPath(), "/yourdirectoryorfilenamehere");
console.log(yourdirectoryorfilenamehere) // When built, this will show the path to where all your resources from (`files: []`) were saved