Electron-vue: Electron app name or productName ignored

[b4dnewz]

The package.json name and productName field doesn't get read and the app name is always _Electron_ even if the property is set, because the npm run dev script calls this: node .electron-vue/dev-runner.js which spawn electron on this line and probably (but I'm not sure since I'm still a noob) doesn't set the root folder where package.json lives..

This is what I came up after some searches.. is this correct?

I was reading something about this and I found this comment which explains something similar: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/3391#issuecomment-155606143

Temporary i'm using this to set the correct userData path:

path.join(app.getPath('userData'), `../${pkg.name}`)

[p418]

When in dev mode, name and version fallback to electron information
When running production app, name and version are set correctly according your package.json definition

[b4dnewz]

is this the preferred way?
If it is I can stick with this method but I've some concerns, If you are developing many apps it's not problematic? since it will always save in the same %APPDATA%/Electron folder and probably some configuration files (in my case config.json) will have the same relative path and name %APPDATA%/Electron/config.json, it can cause problems while developing if you switch projects I guess

[p418]

is this the preferred way?

I don't really know

I would suggest you to define userData path into src/main/index.dev.js

const {productName} = require('../package.json')
const originalUserData = app.getPath('userData')

app.setPath('userData', path.join(originalUserData, productName))

[b4dnewz]

that is clever, I will do that. Thanks.

btw I still think is kind of a bug.

[p418]

Sorry, I realized that my previous code isn't working (didn't tried befeore submiting).

Try this one:

import {app} from 'electron'
import path from 'path'

const {build} = require('../../package.json')
const originalUserData = app.getPath('userData')
app.setPath('userData', path.join(originalUserData, build.productName))

[jazzzz]

Same issue here, and I also think it's a bug.

@p418, shouldn't the workaround be this instead?

import {app} from 'electron'
import path from 'path'

const {build} = require('../../package.json')
const appData = app.getPath('appData')
app.setPath('userData', path.join(appData, build.productName))