Having following error while compiling for electron-vite v8 bytecode : vite bytecode Electron uninstall

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I have cloned the repo, did pnpm i and when i run pnpm test:fully, i get following error,

vite v4.2.1 building for production... 4 modules transformed. out/main/bytecode-loader.js 2.28 kB out/main/foo2-ccaae97d.js 0.20 kB out/main/index.js 2.40 kB [vite:bytecode] Electron uninstall 0 bundles compiled into bytecode. built in 3.21s error during preview electron app: Error: Electron uninstall at Object.getElectronPath (E:\Temp Projects\electron-vite-bytecode-example\node_modules.pnpm\[email protected]_vite@4_55a6a0b3b133fa80ad49095012dd98d5\node_modules\electron-vite\dist\chunks\lib-8ec3e49a.js:60:19) .....

I havent changed anything in code, only just run the commands

Github link https://github.com/alex8088/electron-vite-bytecode-example

I have another electron-vite project based on react-ts. It build perfect, but when i add byteCodePlugin, i get the error. Else every thing work perfect. I m actually trying to do V8 bytecode protection.

import { resolve } from 'path'
import { defineConfig, bytecodePlugin, externalizeDepsPlugin } from 'electron-vite'
import vue from '@vitejs/plugin-vue'

export default defineConfig({
  main: {
    plugins: [externalizeDepsPlugin(), bytecodePlugin()]
  },
  preload: {
    plugins: [externalizeDepsPlugin()]
  },
  renderer: {
    resolve: {
      alias: {
        '@renderer': resolve('src/renderer/src')
      }
    },
    plugins: [vue()]
  }
})

SWIK · Accepted Answer · 2025-06-12 06:29:01Z

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After trying for several times i found out that my nodejs version is latest one v22.16.0 . Since I have both electron "^20.1.4" and electron-vite "1.0.21" older version, i changed them to "^35.5.1" and "3.1.0" .

Then i did :

pnpm install
pnpm approve-builds
pnpm run test:fully

And it worked.

In case issue persists, Use npm instead of pnpm

remove node_modules

pnpm store prune electron
pnpm store prune
npm i electron-vite -D
npm i
npm run test:fully

edited Jun 12 at 6:29

answered Jun 12 at 5:35

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