Use electron-packager

Now that we have installed electron-packager, we’re ready to use it. We could type out the entire command every time, but it’s best practice to add a build script to the package.json file. This means that every time we run the default build script, our specific list of commands will be run.

1. In the package.json file, add the following script in “scripts” of package.json.

    "build": "electron-packager . electron-app --all --overwrite"
   

2. In the src/index.js file, the first line is pre-populated by electron-forge and doesn’t play nicely with electron-packager. Replace the first line with:

    const { BrowserWindow, app } = require('electron');
   

3. Run the new build script with: npm run build
4. If this doesn’t work for you, check out the troubleshooting steps below.