'electron-packager' is not recognized as an internal or external command
There are two cases to make it work...
As discussed above, install electron globally using
-g
,i.e. using
npm install -g electron-packager
Change in your
package.json
:
"scripts": {
"start": "electron-packager ."
},
Then type in the command npm start
.
This way it worked for me..
I might be totally off with it but my fix was that I put the dot without space just make sure in you package.json file its "start": "electron ." Fixed it for me at least
If you have installed it locally with:
npm install electron-packager
Then, it's not gonna work, install it globally as a cli:
npm install -g electron-packager
You can also get it through:
"node_modules/electron-packager/cli.js" . --all --asar
After All, if you don't get it working, install electron-packager. Then, go to your package.json. And beneath your start scripts. Make another string named "build" and give it a value of the electron-packager command you want to run:
...
"scripts": {
"start": "electron .",
"build": "electron-packager . --asar --all"
},
...
Then, go in command prompt or terminal or bash. Then, type:
npm run build
Perform a global package install:
npm install -g electron-packager
The -g
flag tells NPM to install the package globally which makes the command electron-packager
available in your PATH.
If you don't want to do a global install you can install it locally and run with npx
.
npm install -D electron-packager
npx electron-packager .
Alternatively, you can reference it straight from the node_modules folder (not recommended).
./node_modules/electron-packager/cli.js