Electron-forge: Launching Electron Forge with --experimental-modules

[Richienb]

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Please describe your issue:

I'm trying to enable ES6 modules using electron-forge start -- --experimental-modules but I'm getting the following output:

error: unknown option `--experimental-modules'

I'm using Git Bash on Windows 10.

[malept]

What version of Electron Forge are you using?

[malept]

Also, what version of Electron are you using?

[Richienb]

@malept Here you go:

C:\Users\richi>node -v
v12.4.0

C:\Users\richi>npm -v
6.9.0

C:\Users\richi>yarn -v
1.16.0

C:\Users\richi>electron -v

 v5.0.5

C:\Users\richi>electron-forge --version
√ Checking your system
6.0.0-beta.39

[malept]

What is the Electron version in your project? (See package.json)

On a related note: you should avoid installing Electron globally.

[Richienb]

@malept It's on version v5.0.5.

Here's all the other packages I am using.

[malept]

I think you're supposed to put --experimental-modules in the NODE_OPTIONS environment variable, but that doesn't work when you package the app.

If you want ES Module support, your best bet is esm with minimal changes.

[trusktr]

Node.js 13.2.0 recently removed the --experimental-modules flag, making ES Modules enabled by default. 🎉

So we'll have it by default once Electron starts using Node 13.2 or higher.