Unable to determine Electron version. Please specify an Electron version

Question

I was trying to create executable file for electron app but faced this issue

Unable to determine Electron version. Please specify an Electron version

Though I have electron installed on my machine globally but still it was giving me error.

Answer 1

Install electron as dev-dependency to resolve this issue

npm install --save-dev electron

Resources https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-packager/issues/617