Multi tool use

How do I reference my powershell scripts in my electron application after building and packaging?

I have made a Electron Application, mainly for my helpdesk colleagues at work.

What it does (Context):

It provides a simple gui with different "Tasks" it can do. Example:

For this I'm using a combination of:

The Problem:

The app when I run it in Development Mode is running as it should. But after I build and package it with electron, the NPM package node-powershell can't find the .ps1 scripts anymore.
I think I already identified the problem, but I don't know what the solution to this problem is.
node-powershell needs a path to a script and an array of commands.
I have set it up like this:

node-powershell

.ps1

node-powershell

const p1 = require('path').resolve();
const scriptPath = require('path').join(p1, 'src/PowershellScripts/AddMailboxPermissions.ps1');


And then ps.addCommand(scriptPath, commands); (node-powershell)

ps.addCommand(scriptPath, commands);

As said before this works fine in development mode with a webpack server, but when run after packaging I get this error:

C:UsersHuberdoProjektePowershell-SAS-AppClientbuildsbasic-electron-react-boilerplate-win32-x64srcPowershellScriptsGetRemoteMac.ps1 cannot be found.

The reason is because the packaging has following structure. The .ps1 files now have following path:

.ps1

C:UsersHuberdoProjektePowershell-SAS-AppClientbuildsbasic-electron-react-boilerplate-win32-x64resourcesappsrcPowershellScripts

So this is the main issue. How do I package this "the right way" so that it's actually working afterwards.

Infos:

"dev": "webpack-dev-server --hot --host 0.0.0.0 --config=./webpack.dev.config.js",
"build": "webpack --config webpack.build.config.js",
"package": "webpack --config webpack.build.config.js",

I hope someone of you can help me or guide me into the right direction.

Possible Idea:

Reference a completely other path and copy the ps1 files into another directory with a gulp task? Never used it. Could this be a possible solution? If yes how to best approach this?

Update
When I copy the src folder from C:UsersHuberdoProjektePowershell-SAS-AppClientbuildsbasic-electron-react-boilerplate-win32-x64resourcesapp into the root C:UsersHuberdoProjektePowershell-SAS-AppClientbuildsbasic-electron-react-boilerplate-win32-x64 it's working again. So it's mainly a path issue and I don't know how to solve it.

src

C:UsersHuberdoProjektePowershell-SAS-AppClientbuildsbasic-electron-react-boilerplate-win32-x64resourcesapp

C:UsersHuberdoProjektePowershell-SAS-AppClientbuildsbasic-electron-react-boilerplate-win32-x64

Last but not least a direct link to the project on github:

https://github.com/dhuber666/Powershell-SAS-Tool

Here I call the ps1 script:

ps1

https://github.com/dhuber666/Powershell-SAS-Tool/blob/SendAs/src/components/scriptsComponents/AddMailboxPermissions.js

!Thank you!

1 Answer
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I am doing something similar, but the approach I am using for the PowerShell scripts is to create them as PowerShell modules. Then you can just place them in one of the valid PSModule location and you should be good to go. And you could just write a powershell script to copy you modules to the correct location and copy the package to the desktop or where ever it needs to be.

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