Use integrated Node if not otherwise installed about guppy

[superhawk610]

This should be possible using ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE (electron/electron#11515), per @GregorySchier on Twitter.

[joshwcomeau]

Yeah, awesome to hear that this is possible!

[joshwcomeau]

Note that we might want to hold off on this for a moment, as our switch to electron-builder (#26, #236) might affect how this works

[joshwcomeau]

Gonna start taking a look at this =D

[joshwcomeau]

Ok, so I've run into a number of issues with this. I think it's worth doing, but it's probably not worth blocking 0.3 over.

Moving it to 0.4

[joshwcomeau]

I asked on SO, to see if there's a simpler solution we're missing: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/52470403/how-do-i-use-electrons-built-in-node-instance-for-running-tasks

[KenEucker]

@joshwcomeau I followed your stack-overflow post to this project and wanted to check in with you and see if you were able to take advantage of the built in node for your project. I have a similar application that I am working on and being able to use the built in node would help me with a roadblock I am experiencing.

Did you find a solution for this?

[AWolf81]

Not sure if Josh made any progress on this.
I've tried to setup a minimal example with electron-fiddle and you can find the gist here.

But still no luck. But with the fiddle it's easier to test as you can start the binary of electron-fiddle and edit the project with-out a Node version in the system path.

The mentioned fork in the other SO question wasn't working. Seems like it's doing something in a separate thread with-out returning anything but I haven't check that. Any way we need exec/spawn for the app.

I need to check how to call the Electron helper Josh mentioned from Electron then I can try to find a solution for the issue mentioned in th SO question - yarn not finding node.