I don't seem to be able to use ipcRenderer in electron - node.js

Using electron 8.0.3 (but the issue is also apparent with 8.1.0). The HTML page loads fine until I use ipcRenderer. Here is the Javascript code which I am including in the page:
const {ipcRenderer} = require('electron');
ipcRenderer.sendSync('testSync', 'sync ping');
When this is included I get the following error in the developer console in electron:
electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:1095 Uncaught Error: Unable to deserialize cloned data due to invalid or unsupported version.
at EventEmitter../lib/renderer/api/ipc-renderer.ts.ipcRenderer.sendSync (electron/js2c/renderer_init.js:1095)
at login.js:4
Any ideas? This is a freshly created project. I'm not even sure what the error is referring to with "invalid or unsupported version". I also get just a white screen in the electron window because the error is not caught, but even if I try to catch it, the process still dies.

The issue was JQuery. By adding the following code block from the electron docs, before JQuery was included, the problem was solved.
<script>
window.nodeRequire = require;
delete window.require;
delete window.exports;
delete window.module;
</script>
Funnily enough, I spent hours looking for a solution to this before posting this question. A solution then presented itself minutes later. Such is the life of the developer!

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Debug compilation errors errors using Angular Universal in Angular 8 Application

A Brief Backstory
I have been implementing several upgrades to an Angular 8 application such as server-side rendering, and Google Analytics. As most developers do, I would code then test then move on to the next task. Typically I use ng serve to run the application as I am developing.
With Server-side rendering, to test speed, lazy-loaded images, etc, you need to use a node express server running on a generated JS file. After building, etc, I use Node prerender (my js file is prerender.js) to see what the application will look like prerendering on the server.
When I run this command, I should not get any errors, and I know my prender file will start a local server on port 4000.
The Problem
I get errors when running a node express server that I do not get when running with ng serve I recently got an error that said:
Unhandled Promise rejection: Cannot read property 'subscribe' of undefined ; Zone: <root> ; Task: Promise.then ; Value: TypeError: Cannot read property 'subscribe' of undefined
at new ApplicationRef (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:45910:37)
at _createClass (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:37184:20)
at _createProviderInstance (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:37138:26)
at initNgModule (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:37044:32)
at new NgModuleRef_ (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:38176:9)
at Object.createNgModuleRef (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:38159:12)
at NgModuleFactory_.create (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:50821:25)
at C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\prerender.js:29175:43
at ZoneDelegate.invoke (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\prerender.js:481:26)
at Object.onInvoke (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\prerender.js:28683:33) TypeError: Cannot read property 'subscribe' of undefined
at new ApplicationRef (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:45910:37)
at _createClass (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:37184:20)
at _createProviderInstance (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:37138:26)
at initNgModule (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:37044:32)
at new NgModuleRef_ (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:38176:9)
at Object.createNgModuleRef (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:38159:12)
at NgModuleFactory_.create (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\server\main.js:50821:25)
at C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\prerender.js:29175:43
at ZoneDelegate.invoke (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\prerender.js:481:26)
at Object.onInvoke (C:\4towerdevelopment\dist-stage\prerender.js:28683:33)
The closest this gets me to figuring what actually is causing the problem is letting me know that a provider somewhere is causing this error. Looks like something should be an observable rather than a subscription. Beyond that, I guess I just start looking through my providers. My question is:
How can I force Angular to possibly throw this error when developing using ng serve?
If I can't, is there a better way to debug this current error besides combing through each provider? Or at least a way to tell what service is causing the issue?
Thank you.
UPDATE: Basic repo with problem here. I made a new angular project, made sure dependencies were up to date, installed ngUniversal per this post, and received this same Unhandled promise message when running node prerender
Verbatim I went to to the Angular cli website, made a new project (default Angular version installed was 8.3), installed Angular Universal, and tried to build. Same error message as above.
This looks like it was ApplicationRef that triggered the error, and that class is provided internally by the Angular core.
It could be failing in the constructor of the class, and there are a few calls to subscribe on Zone observables. I don't think you're going to find anything in your source code that directly relates to this error. It looks like a build configuration problem.
https://github.com/angular/angular/blob/bb52fb798c8578c461d21aee2b7623232184a5d3/packages/core/src/application_ref.ts#L562
I do not know what could possibly produce this problem, but I would start a new project with SSR and compare the differences to your current project.
Eventually, I dropped the angular 6 approach using pre-render, and went with the latest universal package. There seems to be no problem building using npm run build:ssr and serving dist/server.js in an express server. I am not sure what the problem was with the pre-render approach, but it seems to be outdated anyways. #Reactgular thanks for the feedback.

NodeJS / NPM - Remote package bug

I'm building an electron app that needs an open/save dialog window.
I'm following this guide online: Standard Dialogs in Electron which uses the remote package.
I'm getting a syntax error with one of the dependency files within the remote package, shown below:
Unexpected token >: node_modules/remote/libs/remote.coffee:8
Line 8 is module.exports = (opts = {}) ->, probably supposed to be =>. If I change that, I get an Unexpected identifier error instead. This leads me to think there's some kind of ES6 support issue here.
Are there any troubleshooting steps I could take to help narrow down the issue?
Or alternatively, suggestions for a different electron-compatible package for open file/save file dialog windows (mac).
This error was caused by an update issue regarding the require syntax. The solution is the following:
// use these lines instead to set up dialog instead of the remote package.
const remote = require('electron').remote;
const dialog = remote.dialog;
Fix courtesy of this Github comment

nwjs reactjs, confused about my context. Document is undefined

In my nwjs application i am using React to build my UI. Currently, React is being loaded via a <script> tag in the main file, index.html. index.html has another <script> tag which loads main.js containing code which defines and renders my React components as well as requiring (require()) a few Node modules such as "fs" and "McFly".
This all seems to be working, however when i try using another node module (react-inlinesvg) i get an error, "document is undefined".
Having looked online for help, i have come to the conclusion that React now believes that it is being run on the server? Which is odd, as before i started using the react-inlinesvg module it was happily rendering components using React.render (clientside rendering).
If you need any more context or information then please ask.
It could be that you are rendering on the server side, or also that you are rendering both sides. In the second case you could simple nest the line that is causing you error with:
if (process.env.BROWSER) {
the line causing the error
}
If the error disappears, it means that you are on the server side also!
I hope this helps...
Basically if you code is universal (or isomorphic, if you want...) with this check you can execute the code only on client side, you want to do this to use a particular style-sheet for example:
if (process.env.BROWSER) {
require("../style/main.scss");
}
Naturally if you want to do stuff server-side you can check
if (!process.env.BROWSER) {
}
if any one face this he can solve it in 2 ways:
Solution 1: if you are using nw.js 15 or above try to enable mix context mode:
in your package.json add this flag:
"chromium-args": "--mixed-context"
Solution 2: expose document to the global object using this hack:
global.document = window.document;

Chrome Extension: How to solve "Not allowed to load local resource" error upon content script injection

I tried to inject jQuery to content page to make easy access to DOM elements.
The code was something like below
chrome.tabs.executeScript(tabId, { file: "jquery.min.js"} ,function(){
chrome.tabs.executeScript(tabId, { file: myOwnScript.js});}
);
It was all fine on Windows, but on Ubuntu, in content page window, I always get console error message saying
"Not allowed to load local resource: file:///****/jquery.min.map"
I noted it was talking about *.map but not *.js
There are some more mysteies:
1. There is no error message on myOwnScript.js
2. My extension works well even though this message keeps showing at each page load.
I made plenty searches on Google but didn't find similar case.
My questions is,
1. What is the reason of such error?
2. Should I take it as a serious error?
My enviroment is as below
OS : Ubuntu 14.04, with LXDE desktop
Chrome : 34.0.1847.132
(Didn't try other configurations because I am not that good at customizing Linux :)
Previous versions of Jquery have a comment pointing to the map file (so that a bug in jquery.min.js can be translated to a bug in the readable jquery.js). You can safely delete this comment, or upgrade to a more recent version of Jquery, which has removed this comment (for exactly this reason). See also this answer.

How to test an AngularJS/SocketStream/Node.js app using Karma

I am working on an AngularJS application that is delivered by a SocketStream/node.js server.
I have an AngularJS service that calls api functions on the SocketStream server and progress has been good so far.
But now the time has come to start writing the first tests and the first testing framework that came to mind is Karma/Jasmine, since this is the recommend AngularJS set up.
So far so good, but since my AngularJS modules are imported using 'require' (SocketStream's version, not require.js) and server api calls are part of the test, I need to configure Karma to load SocketStream (at least its client side).
I took a good look at 'https://github.com/yiwang/angular-phonecat-livescript-socketstream' but when I run this example I get run time errors, possibly because I have later versions of variuous dependencies installed.
I managed to get 'required' resolved by packing my SocketStream app by adding 'ss.client.packAssets()' to app.js and run 'SS_PACK=1 node app.js', but when I start karma it logs an error message saying:
'Chrome 23.0 (Linux) ERROR
Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function
at /the...path/client/static/assets/app/1368026081351.js:25'
'1368026081351.js' is the SocketStream packed assets file. If I don't load it the error message is something like 'require is undefined', so my best guess is that the error is happening somewhere inside the SocketStream require code. Also because I run karma in DEBUG mode and can see all the files being served.
I have been trying different approaches as to find out what is happening but to now avail. So my questions are:
Is anybody else successfully testing AngularJS/SocketStream using Karma?
Does anybody have any suggestions as to how I can fix, or at least debug this problem?
Are there any alternatives/better solutions?
Time to answer, sort of, my own question:
Sort of, because I came to the conclusion that Karma and node.js/SocketStream have a lot of overlap, so I decided to see if I can omit Karma altogether and deliver the Jasmine testing platform through SocketStream. It turns out that that is possible and here's how I did it:
I defined a new SocketStream route and client in my 'app.js' file:
ss.client.define( 'test', {
view: 'SpecRunner.html',
css: ['libs/test'],
code: ['libs', 'tests', 'app'],
tmpl: 'none'
});
ss.http.route( '/test', function(req, res) {
res.serveClient( 'test' );
});
I downloaded jasmine-standalone-1.3.1.zip and copied 'SpecRunner.html' to the 'client/views' folder. I then edited it to make it load AngularJS and all SocketStream client files, like all other views:
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.6/angular.min.js"></script>
<script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/angularjs/1.0.6/angular-resource.min.js"></script>
<SocketStream/>
I removed the 'script' tags that import the sample source files ( 'Player.js' and 'Song.js' ) and specs but let the last 'script' block in place unmodified.
I then created a new folder inside 'client/css/libs' called 'test' and copied 'jasmine.css' in there unmodified.
Then I copied 'jasmine.js' and 'jasmine-html.js' renamed to '01-jasmine.js' and '02-jasmine-html.js' but otherwise unmodified, into '/client/code/libs'.
Now Jasmine is in place and will be invoked by using the '/test' route. The slightly unsatisfactory bit is that I haven't found an elegant place to store my spec files. They only work so far if I place them inside the 'libs' folder. Anywhere else and they are served by SocketStream as modules and are not run.
But I can live with that for now. I can run Jasmine tests without having to configure a special Karma setup.

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