Native module prebuilds not found when launching electron

[timgoeller]

Describe the bug I'm using a module that uses sodium-native in my project. It comes with prebuilds. When starting the project I get an error, that no native build was found for my platform. That's because when it runs the index.js of the node-gyp-build located inside the sodium-native module from the index.js in dist_electron, the dir var in the node-gyp-build index.js file is the dist_electron dir where it won't find the prebuilds. Is there an additional step required to use that module?

To Reproduce Create a new project with vue-cli-plugin-electron-builder, install the hypercore module and import it in background.js.

[nklayman]

Try adding sodium-native as an external by setting your vue.config.js to:

module.exports = {
  pluginOptions: {
    electronBuilder: {
      externals: ['sodium-native']
    }
  }
}

[timgoeller]

I tried that, and it worked when using sodium-native on itself. It failed with an AssertionError when using the hypercore module however (which relies on the sodium-native module).

Works when adding hypercore to the externals though, so I'll close the issue.