using electron-compile and a forked child node process, passing parameters to compiled js

[ddombrowsky]

I have a system that works perfectly with "compiled" javascript code, as done by electron-forge. It does exactly what I need.

Then I needed to fork a new process. This means I can't just point it to the javascript file that I want to run, because that's compiled and in the .cache directory. I can't just re-launch es6-shim.js, because that is hardcoded to launch the application in package.json. I've resorted to copying in the raw js files, which kinda defeats the purpose of pre-compiling

How can I accomplish this? I've launching the child process with script:

const electronCompile = require('electron-compile');
const c = electronCompile.init(__dirname, 'child.js');

but c is undefined and I can't use it as I would a require-d object. I can't figure out how to pass parameters into the newly minted process and call a js file that has been pre-compiled.

Any ideas?

[ddombrowsky]

Seems to me like it's as easy as changing

  require.main.require(mainModule);

to

return   require.main.require(mainModule);

in init()

[ddombrowsky]

Also, for the sake of the internet, you can work around this by putting a pointer into the main module from within child.js:

require.main.server = exports;

Then in the script which calls electronCompile.init(), just use require.main.server to pass in parameters to the compiled object.