Webpack cannot find module 'electron'

Question

I am trying to develop a little electron angular2 application based on this tutorial

It seems their is some error with the bundling of webpack, because i cant require/import the electron remote in my renderer component.

in my AppComponent I do the following

import {remote} from 'electron';

My Webpack Config

var path = require('path');
var webpack = require('webpack');
var CommonsChunkPlugin = webpack.optimize.CommonsChunkPlugin;
var webpackTargetElectronRenderer = require('webpack-target-electron-renderer');

var config = {
  debug: true,

  devtool: 'source-map',

  entry: {
    'angular2': [
    'rxjs',
    'reflect-metadata',
    'angular2/core',
    'angular2/router',
    'angular2/http'
  ],
  'app': './src/app/renderer/bootstrap'
},

  output: {
    path: __dirname + '/build/',
    publicPath: 'build/',
    filename: '[name].js',
    sourceMapFilename: '[name].js.map',
    chunkFilename: '[id].chunk.js'
  },

  resolve: {
    extensions: ['','.ts','.js','.json', '.css', '.html'],
    packageMains: ['webpack', 'browser', 'web', 'browserify', ['jam', 'main'], 'main']
  },

  module: {
    loaders: [
      {
        test: /\.ts$/,
        loader: 'ts',
        exclude: [ /node_modules/ ]
      }
    ]
  },

  plugins: [
    new CommonsChunkPlugin({ name: 'angular2', filename: 'angular2.js', minChunks: Infinity }),
    new CommonsChunkPlugin({ name: 'common',   filename: 'common.js' })
  ]
};

config.target = webpackTargetElectronRenderer(config);
module.exports = config;

Webpack throws the following error

ERROR in ./src/app/renderer/components/app/app.ts
(1,22): error TS2307: Cannot find module 'electron'.

Answer 1

Solved it

const electron = require('electron');
const remote = electron.remote;