Note that when deployed with F6 there is no index.html in the folder (file:///C:/NSBasic/Test/electronweather/index.html) and there are no errors in the AS logfile. Running version 7.4.2.0 in Windows 10
Also when running ‘npm init’ it would not allow capital letters in the Package Name(ElectronWeather). This had to be changed to all lower case and I changed the places in the sample app for this as well.
Just tried this here on a Windows 10 box. It worked fine. If you’re using the sample, there are several step which can be skipped. The Wiki article has been updated to note this:
I had reinstalled at least a few times because of the upper case restriction (ie: “package name: (ElectronWeather.appstudio”) was rejected until the uppercase letters were changed. This also meant changing the Sample app references. This may be part of the problem, but probably not. The version I’m using of node.js may be newer than the one you are using and this may be something to consider. Also, my test computer for this is a Windows 10 Home fairly new laptop used only for AS and internet browsing, not Pro and again may be part of the problem.
I just deleted the Sample directory, and re-did the procedures to create an Electron app. Same results.
Question: have you tried downloading the latest version of node.js and testing this version to see of you get the same problem with uppercase? “Sorry, name can no longer contain capital letters.” when trying to use ElectronWeather.appstudio as the package name.
Run “npm init” and at the package name I cannot enter ElectronWeather.appstudio with any caps. The message appears there:
“…
Press ^C at any time to quit. package name: (ElectronWeather.appstudio) Sorry, name can no longer contain capital letters
version: (1.0.0)
description:
…”
If you don’t get the error we are running different versions.
I did some research on the web and found others with this same message. No good answers but I did see some mention of directory paths. So I decided to change the “Deploy local path” from the app location ( ie C:/Test/electronweather.appstudio) to a new folder (C:/Testew) and deploy there. That worked after running “npm install” and “npm start” in that folder.
As noted previously the Win .exe runs properly but there were a number of errors when “npm run makewin” was run. See below. Let me know if something else needs to be done to remove these errors or if they can just be ignored.
Looks like there have been significant changes to Electron since we released this feature. In particular, makeWinInstaller is no longer supported.
The executable is correctly made (as you noted), but not turned into an installer package. There are a number of tools available to do this, including Electron Installer and Inno Setup:
I’ll wait for the next build, “electron/windows-installer” looks like a bit more than I want to dig into at this time and I’m just testing Electron for the fun of it now.
