Tips on upgrading to Electron v5

[rstoenescu]

Hi All,

If you are building desktop apps then this is for you.

For upgrading from Electron < 5 to v5+ you will need to edit your src-electron/main-process/main.js at this location:

mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
  width: 1000,
  height: 600,
  useContentSize: true,

  /**********************
   * ADD THE FOLLOWING: *
   **********************/
  webPreferences: {
    nodeIntegration: true
  }
})

This is due to a breaking change in Electron v5 which disables node integration by default.

Enjoy!

[bjbk]

Thanks! I understand that one will have to change the dependency in the package.json to v5 manually in order to update from v4?

[rstoenescu]

@bjbk Yes. But please read the Electron release notes first. See if you really want the update and that you fully grasp the changes.

[bjbk]

@rstoenescu understood. Thank you!