Electron support?

[rcrodrigues]

Hey, I got here from the phantom-html2pdf
I'm searching for a library that supports Electron. I tried to run in my alectron app, but no success.
Got an error when spawning the child process. Probably because of ASAR files. Any tips maybe?

[SamVerschueren]

Not sure why it doesn't work. What's the error?

@sindresorhus Any ideas? It uses basically the same technique as Pageres. The only thing different is that I write to a temporary file and read that file again in order to return a Buffer.

[sindresorhus]

child_process.spawn() doesn't yet work with ASAR. See (and vote up!): electron/electron#9459

[rcrodrigues]

Thanks @SamVerschueren and @sindresorhus for the quick reply!

When using phanton-hmtl2pdf, in the convert method, i.g., a parameter of the child_process.spawn()
is a file inside the ASAR packed app files ("phantom-script.js"). As @sindresorhus stated, I believe it's then an Electron problem.

[rcrodrigues]

Just letting you guys know, I managed to make it work in an Electron app by making the installer unpack this lib after the app is copied to the target, so it won't be located in ASAR file. Thanks again for the support!

[SamVerschueren]

Thanks for the information regarding the topic @rcrodrigues and @sindresorhus. Going to close this as it's not something I can deal with from my side.