Dev and build commands not working

[ashNotKetchup]

At the moment, nothing will build, argh! Will add error logs as and when I come across them.

Replicate:

• Fetch the latest update from repo (I'm also intrigued to see if this happens with old copies too)
• Open terminal in that folder
• Try either Dev(yarn then yarn local dev) or Build (yarn then yarn local build)

Questions:

• Does this happen with windows machines?
• What errors (if any) is everyone else getting?

Extra marks:

• Does this happen when downloading the source code from the releases, then running them as above?

EDIT:

If getting the "mermaid.js" error, do the following:

• Remove all mention of mermaid js from devdependencies in the root directory's package.json
• Remove all mention of mermaid js from devdependencies in the shared directory's package.json
• Remove all text from yarn.lock

Then, restart the instructions from the original post above

[demzou]

Test building on windows machine. Build successful but error once launching the app:

Uncaught Error: Electron failed to install correctly, please delete node_modules/electron and try installing again
    at ry (index.js:17:11)
    at index.js:21:18

[ashNotKetchup]

Looking into this a little more, seems like it could be an issue with using import rather than require? Or with requiring something we shouldn't be?

For example:

electron/electron#7300 (comment)

[ashNotKetchup]

Seems like there has been an issue with broken dependencies relating to electron (specifically ipcRenderer) following an update. We're not sure which so we have temporarily solved this by committing Oli's yarn.lock file to the repo. This has the effect of locking all dependencies to specific versions specified in that lock file, guaranteeing that anyone who pulls this file will get those versions (which work).

Something has changed in electron/its typescript definitions, we need to upgrade the dependencies to the latest version and figure out what has gone wrong.

[ashNotKetchup]

Possible methods for figuring out broken dependencies:

• Yarn.lock file comparison
• Upgrade single dependencies one at a time using yarn upgrade-interactive