Working with threads.js, resolving node modules issue

[yonigel]

• electron-webpack version: 2.7.4
• electron-builder version: 21.2.0

I'm trying to use threads.js to work with web workers.

When I'm trying to use node modules in the main process's worker (i.e. path, fs), I'm getting following error:

Module not found: Error: Can't resolve 'fs' in '...\src\main'

But, when using this example it works (excluding the sha library).

For main window I'm using:

mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 900,
height: 680,
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true,
nodeIntegrationInWorker: true
},
fullscreen: true
});

And instead of the example above I wrote this:

import { expose } from 'threads/worker';
import keyBy from 'lodash.keyby';
import fs from 'fs';
expose({
testWorker() {
const test = fs.readFileSync('/path');
return keyBy([]);
}
});

When using only keyBy it works fine, but when adding modules like path or fs I'm getting the error I've mentioned above.

I saw this closed issue but it should work in Electron's main process as far as I understand.

Also, I've opened an issue in threads.js, but was told that the code looks fine and that it is probably an electron issue.

Am I missing something?

Thanks

[alexweber]

This may or may not help but electron-webpack actually uses 2 different webpack configs/instances; one for main and another for renderer so you can't do stuff like remote requiring main stuff in the renderer and vice-versa like you would if it was a single webpack for both - which may be used in other boilerplates.