Quasar Electron App with sharp (quasar-electron-sharp-issue-repro)

A repository meant to reproduce an error while using and packing sharp library in an Electron App with Vite.

App description

The repo features a dummy 'renderer' part, which is not important for this issue (but if you see it, it means that the app works)

The electron main process uses the sharp library to resize an image (media/Lenna-in.png ==> media/Lenna-out.png). The app is supposed to launch the resizing as soon as it is launched. If everyting goes well, the 'Lenna-out.png' file should pop in the media folder, when you start the app.

The issue in detail

• The expected behaviour works perfectly fine in dev mode on Linux: npm run dev:electron

• This works also perfectly fine in production mode on Linux with npm run build:electron and the run the app with dist/electron/Packaged/Quasar\ Electron\ App\ with\ sharp-linux-x64/Quasar\ Electron\ App\ with\ sharp

• The problem occurs when launching the Windows build, as the module sharp-win32-x64 is not resolved. When launching the app by double-clicking the icon, it fails with an error message and doesn't event launch the GUI part.

The error message : Could not load the "sharp" module using the win32-x64 runtime

• There is a npm issue, making it difficult to get the sharp-win32-x64 deployed alongside the other platform libs. However even if sharp-win32-x64 is manually copied to the build folder (where I guess it should be normally), it is not resolved either. That is the purpose of the && cp ... part in the build:electron script in package.json

Commands

Install the dependencies

yarn
# or
npm install

Start the app in development mode (hot-code reloading, error reporting, etc.)

npm run dev:electron

Build the app for production (Windows and Linux)

npm run build:electron

Customize the configuration

See Configuring quasar.config.js.