I’ve created an Electron Forge App that wraps a React app but also should start a node.js local server when open. This works well when I run the app using npm start but when I run npm run make, the .exe file that’s created generates multiple windows in a loop. I can’t find the error, this is the code on main.js where I start the server:
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron');
const path = require('node:path');
const { fork } = require('child_process');
// Handle creating/removing shortcuts on Windows when installing/uninstalling.
if (require('electron-squirrel-startup')) {
app.quit();
}
let serverProcess;
const startServer = () => {
serverProcess = fork(path.join(__dirname, '../../src/server/index.js'));
};
const createWindow = () => {
// Create the browser window.
const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
webPreferences: {
preload: MAIN_WINDOW_PRELOAD_WEBPACK_ENTRY,
},
});
// and load the index.html of the app.
mainWindow.loadURL(MAIN_WINDOW_WEBPACK_ENTRY);
// Open the DevTools.
mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools();
};
// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.whenReady().then(() => {
startServer();
createWindow();
// On OS X it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
// dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
app.on('activate', () => {
if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
createWindow();
}
});
});
// Quit when all windows are closed, except on macOS. There, it's common
// for applications and their menu bar to stay active until the user quits
// explicitly with Cmd + Q.
app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
app.quit();
}
});
// Quit the server process when the Electron app is quitting
app.on('before-quit', () => {
if (serverProcess) {
serverProcess.kill();
}
});
I’ve tried using chatGPT but this issue continues
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