This commit bumps Electron and related dependencies to their latest
versions to leverage native ESM support. It adjusts build configuration
to use native ESM support instead of relying on CommonJS bundling.
Key changes:
- Bump Electron to latest v29.
Electron v28 ships with native ESM/ECMAScript modules support.
Details on Electron ESM support:
- electron/electron#21457
- electron/electron#37535
- Bump `electron-builder` to latest v24.13.
`electron-builder` is used to package and publish the application.
It supports ESM since 24.10.
Details on `electron-builder` ESM support:
- electron-userland/electron-builder#7936
- electron-userland/electron-builder#7935
- Bump `electron-log` to latest v5.1.
`electron-log` supports ESM since version 5.0.4.
Details on `electron-log` ESM support:
- megahertz/electron-log#390.
- Change `electron-vite` configuration to bundle as ESM instead of
CommonJS to leverage Electron's native ESM support.
Other supporting changes:
- Add type hint for electron-builder configuration file.
- Update import statements for `electron-updater` as it still is a
CommonJS module and does not support ESM.
Details:
- electron-userland/electron-builder#7976
- Improve `electron-builder` configuration file to dynamically locate
main entry files, supporting various JavaScript file extensions
(`.js`, `.mjs` and `.cjs`) to facilitate easier future changes.
- Change comment about Electron process-specific module alias
registration. This issue has been fixed in `electron-vite`, but
subpath module imports for Electron still do not work when building
tests (`npm run test:unit`).
Details:
- alex8088/electron-vite#372
- Add `electron-log` in bundling process instead of externalizing to
workaround Electron ESM loader issues with subpath imports (inability
to do `electron-log/main`).
Details:
- alex8088/electron-vite#401
- electron/electron#41241
- Improve desktop runtime error checks' assertion message for better
clarity.
This commit makes the build process more robust, simplifies
configurations and reduce the risk of incomplete or erroneous
deployments.
- Centralize output directory definitions by introducing
`dist-dirs.json`.
- Add `verify-build-artifacts` utility to ensure correct build outputs
and `print-dist-dir` to determine distribution directory.
- Add steps in CI/CD pipeline to verify build artifacts.
- Migrate Electron Builder config from YAML to CJS for capability to
read JSON.
- Fix `release-site.yaml` failing due to pointing to wrong distribution
directory, change it to use `print-dist-dir`.
- Improve `check-desktop-runtime-errors` to verify build artifacts for
more reliable builds. Ensure tests fail and succeed reliably.
- Update `.gitignore` and configure ESLint to use it to define and
ignore build artifact directories from one place, remove
`.eslintignore` that does not add anything after this change.
- Keep `"main"` field in `package.json` as `electron-vite` depends on it
(alex8088/electron-vite#270).
- Improve documentation
- Move external URL checks to its own module under `tests/`. This
separates them from integration test, addressing long runs and
frequent failures that led to ignoring test results.
- Move `check-desktop-runtime-errors` to `tests/checks` to keep all
test-related checks into one directory.
- Replace `ts-node` with `vite` for running
`check-desktop-runtime-errors` to maintain a consistent execution
environment across checks.
- Implement a timeout for each fetch call.
- Be nice to external sources, wait 5 seconds before sending another
request to an URL under same domain. This solves rate-limiting issues.
- Instead of running test on every push/pull request, run them only
weekly.
- Do not run tests on each commit/PR but only scheduled (weekly) to
minimize noise.
- Fix URLs are not captured correctly inside backticks or parenthesis.
