I am learning building Node modules and packaging it with Electron. I've successfully built an module out of a CPP file and can run it with node. However, to run it with Electron I need to rebuild Electron. There are instructions out there, for example:
- https://github.com/electron/electron/blob/v0.37.2/docs/tutorial/using-native-node-modules.md#using-native-node-modules
- https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/2330
Here I have an addon.node file after running node-gyp build. I can reference it in the node application from anywhere: var addon = require('.Release\addon'); and it works fine. However, when I build Electron with it I don't understand where to put the .node file so that it is used in the build. Before I run node_modules\.bin\electron-rebuild (see bullet point 1 link above) where should I put the addon.node file? Is it right to say that before I even test it withing Electron (with console.log or something) I need to run electron-rebuild. Is there a step that I missing that I need to take from having the addon.node file to starting to build it into Electron?
Thank you.