Webtorrent-desktop: Constantly Crashing on Back Arrow

[ernestorendon]

What version of WebTorrent Desktop? (See the 'About WebTorrent' menu)
WebTorrent 0.20.0 (0.99.3)

What operating system and version?
MacOS Mojave 10.14.2 // MacBook Pro 15" mid 2015

What did you do?
I dropped in a magnet link to a series and had it load up in the application, and it works fine for clicking on one episode to play in VLC; but after the episode ends, I'd have to go back into the WebTorrent desktop application, and every single time I click the "Back" button to bring me back to the episode selecting screen, the application crashes every time, without fail.

What did you expect to happen?
Normally, I'd expect the application to simply go back to the previous screen, allowing me to select and play the next episode.

What actually happened?
No less than 7 times, the back button has simply crashed the program entirely, having me re-open it, then select the next episode after the application is re-opened.

[ppshobi]

Confirmed, the same issue happened in my case as well.

[andersfischernielsen]

Samme issue here. Every time.

It seems to be after playing any file, no matter whether through VLC (or any other player, I tested with IINA) or WebTorrent itself.
In the VLC case, after quitting VLC WebTorrent crashes.

[andersfischernielsen]

Strange.. When running the app using npm run start everything works as expected, no crashes.
As soon as I npm run package the app and run the packaged app, the crashing is back.

[andersfischernielsen]

It seems like one of the dependencies in package.json causes the crash when packaging the app.

Running npm-check-updates on the repo and then downgrading the electron version to ^3.0.0 allows me to package the app, stream a file and then go back without issues.

Upgrading electron breaks the top bar, though:

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[feross]

@andersfischernielsen I wonder if the upgrade to Electron 6 has resolved these issues. Can you give this another try on the latest version of the code on master and report back whether this issue is fixed for you?

[javiercejudo]

I had the same issue with 0.20.0 but all looks good on the latest version of the code on master.

[andersfischernielsen]

Packaging from master and running the app has fixed the crashing. Thanks! 👍

[Borewit]

Presumably fixed by #1641 or #1643