macOS Catalina Elektron app crashes immediately

[dangayle]

This issue pertains to the following package(s):

• [x] GraphQL Playground - Electron App
• [ ] GraphQL Playground HTML
• [ ] GraphQL Playground
• [ ] GraphQL Playground Express Middleware
• [ ] GraphQL Playground Hapi Middleware
• [ ] GraphQL Playground Koa Middleware
• [ ] GraphQL Playground Lambda Middleware

What OS and OS version are you experiencing the issue(s) on?

macOS 10.15 Beta Catalina

What version of graphql-playground(-electron/-middleware) are you experiencing the issue(s) on?

1.8.10

What is the expected behavior?

It opens when you double click on it

What is the actual behavior?

It crashes immediately and leaves a problem report

problem-report.txt

What steps may we take to reproduce the behavior?

Open the app on Catalina

[someden]

I have macOS 10.15.2 (19C57) and the app just can't be opened:

[vlbe]

@someden I've also failed to start app when i downloaded it as .zip. Try to install it via homebrew. This worked for me. macOs 10.15.1 (19B88)

[electrovir]

Per this comment, make sure to download the .dmg file or only open the .zip file with macOS's built-in archive utility, not the popular unarchiver app: https://github.com/graphql/graphql-playground/issues/923#issuecomment-453086940