# electron-builder config for the web-terminal desktop shell (Mac focus). # # PACKAGING MODEL — server + its node_modules on disk (extraResources), NOT in asar: # The embedded server (src/server.ts) is ESM, resolves the frontend via # path.join(__dirname,'..','public'), and imports express/ws/web-push/node-pty. # embedded-server.ts loads it from process.resourcesPath when packaged. So we ship, # as real files under Contents/Resources (siblings): dist/ + public/ + node_modules/. # The server then resolves `require('express')` etc. via a plain Node walk-up to # Resources/node_modules — no asar, no ESM-from-asar, no native-module-in-asar issues. # (An earlier build shipped only node-pty and "worked" in-place only because it borrowed # the repo's node_modules up the tree; from /Applications that failed with # "Cannot find package 'express'". This ships the full runtime dep tree.) # # node_modules is filtered to drop build-only tooling (electron/electron-builder/esbuild/ # typescript + their heavy binaries) — never the server's runtime deps or their transitives. # node-pty is rebuilt for the Electron ABI (npmRebuild) before the copy. # # App icon: auto-generated from resources/icon.png. Tray icon: shipped in-asar under assets/. # NOTE: Windows packaging needs a Windows machine (no wine here). appId: com.webterminal.desktop productName: Web Terminal directories: output: dist-app buildResources: resources files: - build/**/* - assets/**/* - package.json extraMetadata: main: build/main.cjs extraResources: - from: ../dist to: dist - from: ../public to: public filter: - "**/*" - "!**/*.ts" - "!**/*.map" - from: node_modules to: node_modules filter: - "**/*" # .bin holds dev-tool shims (asar/tsc/esbuild/…) symlinked into packages we # exclude below — copying them leaves DANGLING symlinks that electron-builder # stat()s and dies on (ENOENT .bin/asar). Runtime deps load by path, not .bin. - "!.bin/**" # build-only tooling — never needed at runtime by express/ws/web-push/node-pty: - "!electron/**" - "!electron-builder/**" - "!esbuild/**" - "!@esbuild/**" - "!typescript/**" - "!app-builder-bin/**" - "!dmg-builder/**" - "!7zip-bin/**" - "!@electron/**" - "!@develar/**" # Rebuild native deps (node-pty) against the Electron ABI before packaging + copy. npmRebuild: true mac: target: - dmg - zip category: public.app-category.developer-tools win: target: - nsis