Problem with angular-electron?

[drajvver]

Hello, I've got empty angular-electron app and wanted to add NFC to it. The problem is that when I copy the first example to HomeComponent I can't compile it.

ERROR in vendor.bundle.js from UglifyJs Unexpected token: name (ACR122Reader) error comes out, any ideas?

Additionally this happens whenI try to run in dev mode. I'm using the newest electron and nodejs.

[pokusew]

Hi @drajvver,

I'll sum up (just for the evidence) what we discussed and found out during our chat:

1. According to the angular-electron documentation – Use NodeJS Native libraries:

   If you need to use NodeJS native libraries, you MUST add it manually in the file webpack.config.js in root folder ...

   So in this case you need to add "nfc-pcsc": "require('nfc-pcsc')" in the webpack.config.js externals section (for example below https://github.com/maximegris/angular-electron/blob/master/webpack.config.js#L226).

2. Don't forget that you need to rebuild the native modules for Electron.

   You can do it for example by changing build:electron:main script in the package.json to the following:

    "tsc main.ts --outDir dist && copyfiles package.json dist && cd dist && npm install --target=1.7.5 --arch=x64 --target_arch=x64 --disturl=https://atom.io/download/electron --runtime=electron --build-from-source=true --prod && cd .."

   After that, don't forget to delete the dist folder and re-run npm start and npm electron:serve.

   Just note that's not the only solution. 🙂

With the changes

Hope it helps. 🙂

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9th September 2017: I updated the comment with the fixed script and closed the issue, as the solution works. I also add note to the project README.

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[Canos]

There is no webpack.config.js in recent versions of angular (as of 6.0).
So how can we configure nfc-pcsc in angular +6?