Execute bat file with electron - node.js

Question

Hello I'm creating an app with react and electron and I have a weird bug. My app have to execute a bat file so I use exec to launch the bat file with paramters like this
import { homedir } from 'os';
import * as path from 'path';
import { access, mkdir } from 'fs/promises';
import { promisify } from 'util';
import * as childProcess from 'child_process';
const exec = promisify(childProcess.exec);
const newProject = async (event: any, ...args: string[]): Promise<any> => {
const home = homedir();
const dir = path.join(home, '/work', args[0]);
// create project directory
try {
await access(dir);
return { ok: false, err: 'project already exist' };
} catch (e) {
await mkdir(dir, { recursive: true });
}
const scripts = path.join(__dirname, 'new-project.bat');
// C:\Users\Isai\Documents\work\hercule\apollon\electron\handlers\new-project.bat
try {
await exec(`${scripts} ${dir} ${args[1]}`);
return { ok: true, msg: 'folder successfully created' };
} catch (e) {
console.log(e);
return { ok: true, err: "unable to create project's folder" };
}
};
export default newProject;
when I do like this I get an error who said that it is not an internal or external command but if I mannualy enter the path of the bat file it work. So I replace the line :
await exec(`${scripts} ${dir} ${args[1]}`);
by
await exec(`C:\Users\Isai\Documents\work\hercule\apollon\electron\handlers\new-project.bat ${dir} ${args[1]}`);
It work perfectly. At the beginning I though I had the wrong path but they are the same. So I don't understant why it's doing that and I can't enter manually the path or it won't work on other machine
EDIT: I have forget to tell that a piece of the script is correctly executing because it create the folder at the good place but I get an error
Here is my bat file
#echo off
cd %1
git init
git checkout -b main
echo This project was created with Hercule>> readme.md
git add .
git commit -m "init commit"
git remote add origin %2
git push -u origin main
Here is the error
Error: Command failed: C:\Users\Isai\Documents\work\hercule\apollon\build\electron\handlers\new-project.bat C:\Users\Isai\work\return-of-the-patato https://github.com/Eexy/return-of-the-patato.git
[2] 'C:\Users\Isai\Documents\work\hercule\apollon\build\electron\handlers\new-project.bat' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne
[2] ou externe, un programme ex�cutable ou un fichier de commandes.
[2]
[2] at ChildProcess.exithandler (child_process.js:317:12)
[2] at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:315:20)
[2] at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1048:16)
[2] at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:288:5) {
[2] killed: false,
[2] code: 1,
[2] signal: null,
[2] cmd: 'C:\\Users\\Isai\\Documents\\work\\hercule\\apollon\\build\\electron\\handlers\\new-project.bat C:\\Users\\Isai\\work\\return-of-the-patato https://github.com/Eexy/return-of-the-patato.git',
[2] stdout: '',
[2] stderr: "'C:\\Users\\Isai\\Documents\\work\\hercule\\apollon\\build\\electron\\handlers\\new-project.bat' n'est pas reconnu en tant que commande interne\r\n" +
[2] 'ou externe, un programme executable ou un fichier de commandes.\r\n'
[2] }
It is in french but it said that it is not a internal command

Answer 1

I have found the probrem when I compile for electron __dirname is equal to " C:\Users\Isai\Documents\work\hercule\apollon\build\electron\handlers\new-project.bat" and I didn't see the build folder which is explain why I was having a issue