Electron - NPM Modules in Renderer

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I'm having difficulty accessing lodash in an electron renderer. I'm new to Electron and understand that both the main process and the renderer (local html file) have access to node. I can require something native to node core such as fs and it works - when I try to require lodash, it returns an empty object. So far I have:

  • installed lodash from npm to the local project (using --save)
  • run electron-rebuild

I refresh the app and step through the debugger only to find that lodash is an empty object.

Am I missing something? Can you only run core node modules in a renderer?

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Mention some more details. - Tirthraj Rao

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To use packages in the renderer, you simply have to load it as a dependency in your package.json file and require it by name. To make sure your dependencies are up to date:

  • add the module's latest version to the dependencies object of your package.json file.
  • delete your node_modules/folder
  • run npm install on your project folder

You should now be able to simply do require('module_name'); in your renderer.js file.