Electron踩坑之缺少path.txt

问题

当安装了Electron 8.2.0 到项目中准备打包时，错误提示

> your-app@1.0.0 start D:\electron\demo
> electron .

D:\electron\demo\node_modules\electron\index.js:14
    throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again')
    ^

Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
    at getElectronPath (D:\electron\demo\node_modules\electron\index.js:14:11)
    at Object.<anonymous> (D:\electron\demo\node_modules\electron\index.js:18:18)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:774:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:785:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:641:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:556:12)
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:681:19)
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:16:16)
    at Object.<anonymous> (D:\electron\demo\node_modules\electron\cli.js:3:16)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:774:30)
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! your-app@1.0.0 start: `electron .`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the your-app@1.0.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\admin\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2019-12-27T09_00_14_091Z-debug.log

于是打开报错代码

var fs = require('fs')
var path = require('path')

var pathFile = path.join(__dirname, 'path.txt')

function getElectronPath () {
  if (fs.existsSync(pathFile)) {
    var executablePath = fs.readFileSync(pathFile, 'utf-8')
    if (process.env.ELECTRON_OVERRIDE_DIST_PATH) {
      return path.join(process.env.ELECTRON_OVERRIDE_DIST_PATH, executablePath)
    }
    return path.join(__dirname, 'dist', executablePath)
  } else {
    throw new Error('Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again')
  }
}

module.exports = getElectronPath()

可以看出是因为没有找到path.txt文件，我看了下目录，果然没有这个文件，那这个文件是本来就有的么，我去github查了一下，github上也没有啊，在源码搜了一下，发现在install.js中有创建这个文件，那这个install.js是什么时候运行的呢，我们来看下package.json，发现script中有个postinstall命令，这个命令是指装完包运行，所以是装完包运行这个命令报错了？
我们进这个目录运行下命令yarn run postinstall，下载失败，原因是：使用了淘宝源，淘宝源版本号没有v，找不到对应资源。

异常地址：
https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/electron/v8.2.0/

成功地址：
https://npm.taobao.org/mirrors/electron/8.2.0/

解决

electron 官方提供了修改目录名称的环境变量electron_custom_dir

yarn config set electron_custom_dir 8.2.0

再运行yarn run postinstall，嗯，很快就成功了