Unable to use app.getPath, fatal error.

[codelocksdev]

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Electron Forge version

6.0.0-beta.57

Electron version

13.1.2

Operating system

windows 10

Last known working Electron Forge version

No response

Expected behavior

import {remote} from 'electron';

export function Greetings() {
   console.log(remote.app.getPath('home'));
   return (
    <Container>
      <Image
        src="https://www.vectorlogo.zone/logos/reactjs/reactjs-icon.svg"
        alt="ReactJS logo"
      />
    </Container>
  )
}

Expect that the system file home path should print in the console.

### Actual behavior

App crashes on startup with this error.
```| Compiling Renderer Code
An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge:
[Error: EISDIR: illegal operation on a directory, read] {
  errno: -4068,
  code: 'EISDIR',
  syscall: 'read'
}

Electron Forge was terminated. Location:
{}
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] start: `electron-forge start`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] 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\saman\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2021-08-10T22_07_30_463Z-debug.log

logs:

0 info it worked if it ends with ok
1 verbose cli [
1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe',
1 verbose cli   'C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js',
1 verbose cli   'start'
1 verbose cli ]
2 info using [email protected]
3 info using [email protected]
4 verbose run-script [ 'prestart', 'start', 'poststart' ]
5 info lifecycle [email protected]~prestart: [email protected]
6 info lifecycle [email protected]~start: [email protected]
7 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~start: unsafe-perm in lifecycle true
8 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~start: PATH: C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin;D:\dev\repos\electron\MyCloset\node_modules\.bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.4\bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA GPU Computing Toolkit\CUDA\v11.4\libnvvp;C:\Program Files\Oculus\Support\oculus-runtime;C:\Python38\Scripts\;C:\Python38\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Oracle\Java\javapath;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\Shared Libraries\redist\intel64\compiler;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Windows\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\NVIDIA NvDLISR;C:\Program Files\Amazon\AWSCLIV2\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Seagate\VirtualFile\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Seagate\VirtualFile64\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Seagate\SnapAPI\;C:\Program Files\Git\cmd;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\System32\Wbem;C:\WINDOWS\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\WINDOWS\System32\OpenSSH\;C:\Program Files\nodejs\;C:\ProgramData\chocolatey\bin;C:\Gradle\gradle-6.8\bin;C:\kube;C:\Program Files\dotnet\;C:\Program Files\Docker\Docker\resources\bin;C:\ProgramData\DockerDesktop\version-bin;C:\Program Files\NVIDIA Corporation\Nsight Compute 2021.2.0\;C:\Users\saman\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\Scripts\;C:\Users\saman\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36\;C:\Users\saman\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\ffmpeg\bin\;C:\Users\saman\AppData\Local\atom\bin;C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition 2020.1.1\bin;C:\Program Files\JetBrains\PyCharm Community Edition 2020.1.2\bin;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_251\bin;C:\users\saman\videos\;C:\gifski-0.10.1\win;C:\Program Files\JetBrains\IntelliJ IDEA 2019.3.4\bin;C:\Users\saman\AppData\Local\Microsoft\WindowsApps;C:\Users\saman\AppData\Roaming\npm;C:\Users\saman\AppData\Local\gitkraken\bin;C:\Users\saman\.dotnet\tools;C:\Users\saman\AppData\Local\Programs\Microsoft VS Code\bin;C:\Program Files\JetBrains\CLion 2021.1.3\bin
9 verbose lifecycle [email protected]~start: CWD: D:\dev\repos\electron\MyCloset
10 silly lifecycle [email protected]~start: Args: [ '/d /s /c', 'electron-forge start' ]
11 silly lifecycle [email protected]~start: Returned: code: 1  signal: null
12 info lifecycle [email protected]~start: Failed to exec start script
13 verbose stack Error: [email protected] start: `electron-forge start`
13 verbose stack Exit status 1
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\index.js:332:16)
13 verbose stack     at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:315:20)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\lib\spawn.js:55:14)
13 verbose stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
13 verbose stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1021:16)
13 verbose stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:286:5)
14 verbose pkgid [email protected]
15 verbose cwd D:\dev\repos\electron\MyCloset
16 verbose Windows_NT 10.0.19043
17 verbose argv "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "C:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\bin\\npm-cli.js" "start"
18 verbose node v12.18.3
19 verbose npm  v6.14.6
20 error code ELIFECYCLE
21 error errno 1
22 error [email protected] start: `electron-forge start`
22 error Exit status 1
23 error Failed at the [email protected] start script.
23 error This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
24 verbose exit [ 1, true ]

Steps to reproduce

1. clone this repo: https://github.com/diego3g/electron-typescript-react and install
2. Edit index.tsx to be this

import { Button } from '../Button'
import { Container, Image, Text } from './styles'
import {remote} from 'electron';


export function Greetings() {
  function handleSayHello() {
    window.Main.sendMessage('Hello World');

    console.log('Message sent! Check main process log in terminal.')
  }
   console.log(remote.app.getPath('home'));


  return (
    <Container>
      <Image
        src="https://www.vectorlogo.zone/logos/reactjs/reactjs-icon.svg"
        alt="ReactJS logo"
      />
      <Text>An Electron boilerplate including TypeScript, React, Jest and ESLint.</Text>
      <Button onClick={handleSayHello}>Send message to main process</Button>
    </Container>
  )
}
 

Run the app.

Additional information

No response

[malept]

This was fixed in beta 58 with #2330

[malept]

If you need more assistance, please use one of the community forums, including the Electron Discord server.

[codelocksdev]

I upgraded to 6.0.0-beta.58 and still getting the exact same error.