electron builder Please specify 'version' in the package.json

[skident]

• Electron-Builder Version: 24.13.3

• Node Version: 18.15.0

• Electron Version:
• Electron Type (current, beta, nightly):

• Target:

I want to manage the application version from the outside using an environment variable. Everything works fine except I cannot build the dist of my app after I remove the version from the package.json file. The error is next: electron builder Please specify 'version' in the package.json

Is there a way to pass an app version from outside because this error looks very odd.

[gilvrey]

You can use extraMetadata to inject properties to package.json

Example:

extraMetadata: {
    version: process.env.APP_VERSION
}

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[skident]

I ended up by writing a JS script which injects the actual version in my package.json file when it's needed and then restores it back to kind of 1.0.0 version. Not very convenient but it solves my problem