I am trying to use the fs module in my Electron app to copy and edit files, however it does not work in any way.
I have a schedule.js file where I want to have methods to copy files.
I tried adding const fs = require('fs'); and using fs.copyFile() in my code, ended up telling me Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined at schedule.js:2:12.
I found the solution of doing import { copyFile } from "fs"; (or "original-fs"), it told me Uncaught TypeError: Failed to resolve module specifier "fs". Relative references must start with either "/", "./", or "../"..
I tried importing it to Electron's index.js (where imports seem to go fine) and then exporting it to schedule.js, it did not work.
I tried changing package.json to "type" : "module", it did not work.
I tried changing package.json to "type" : "commonjs", it did not work.
schedule.js
// const fs = require("fs");
import { copyFile } from "fs";
function fsCopyFile(source, destination) {
copyFile(source, destination, (err) => {
if (err) throw err;
console.log(source+' was copied to '+destination);
});
}
index.js
const createWindow = () => {
// Create the browser window.
const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
webPreferences: {
preload: path.join(__dirname, 'preload.js'),
// devTools: false
nodeIntegration: true
},
frame: false,
titleBarStyle: 'hiddenInset'
});
// and load the index.html of the app.
mainWindow.loadFile(path.join(__dirname, 'index.html'));
};
Thanks in advance for those of you who can help me, I have been working on it for 2 days.