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I am trying to use electron react boilerplate to make a desktop application. However, whenever I try to use python-shell, I get "Module not found: Can't resolve 'child_process'" in my directory. How can I fix this, or is it even possible to use these native modules from electron react boilerplate

Dev Amlani
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  • What's your version of node? What exactly are you trying to do? –  Feb 09 '22 at 17:35
  • My node version is 17.3.0. I am trying to use python-shell to call a python-script to update the information that my app shows. I checked the python-shell/index.js, and it requires the child_process module. Thanks – Dev Amlani Feb 10 '22 at 19:37
  • Are you trying to call python-shell in your renderer script perhaps? I.e. in in-browser code as opposed to electron/node backend code? –  Feb 10 '22 at 19:49
  • I am calling the code from my App.tsx file, which is in the renderer directory, but the python-shell call is outside the return statement returning the html. – Dev Amlani Feb 11 '22 at 15:24
  • Doesn't matter, you cannot run node-only code inside the browser. You need to send the data to the backend script and make the call in there. See here: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/ipc –  Feb 12 '22 at 09:11

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Use in main.ts on ipcRender calling in contextBridge, this work for me

Omar Samudio
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