Notifications are not appearing on Windows 8+ when I distribute the app.

[lipis]

The app and notifications work perfectly on my development machine (Windows 10) and in my Notification settings I have something like this:

And when I'm disabling the toast app there are no more notifications. But when I'm trying it on another machine (Windows 8.1 for example) there are no notifications and no toast in the Notifications. Am I missing something?

(I integrated the node-notifier with Electron)

[lipis]

I have the following code:

  notifier.notify({
    title: title,
    message: message,
    sound: false,
    wait: true,
    data: data, // custom data
  }, function(error, response) {
    console.log('error', response);
    raygunClient.send(new Error('Notifier Error'), {error, response});
  });

here is the stacktrace and error if it's helpful:

    WindowsToaster.[anonymous] in C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\wire\app-2.2417\resources\app.asar\main.js:97
    unknown.[anonymous] in C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\wire\app-2.2417\resources\app.asar\node_modules\node-notifier\lib\utils.js:165
    unknown.[anonymous] in C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\wire\app-2.2417\resources\app.asar\node_modules\node-notifier\lib\utils.js:53
    ChildProcess.ChildProcess.exithandler in child_process.js:222
    Object.emitTwo in events.js:87
    ChildProcess.ChildProcess.emit in events.js:172
    Object.maybeClose in internal/child_process.js:817
    Process.Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit in internal/child_process.js:211

error: {
  killed: false
  code: 3762504530
  signal: undefined
  cmd: "C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Temp\7EEA.tmp -sound false -data [object Object] -m foo -t bar -q true -w true"
}
response: ""

[kurisubrooks]

I have the same problem ( #76 ). Node-notifier seems to refuse to load if it's in an .asar.
It works fine if you compile it without the use of an asar, incase you need to distribute your app urgently.

I'm waiting for node-notifier to support .asar before I distribute my app 😟

[lipis]

I'm using the grunt-electron (which is using the electron-packager) and when I'm adding the asar: false then I'm getting the following error:

So I might have to wait for the asar support as well :/

[kurisubrooks]

The problem doesn't look to be with the packager, but because the file name is too long. Try shortening the file name to something like squirrel-installer and try to re-run the build.

[kurisubrooks]

If this doesn't work, let me know and i'll try to run you through using electron-packager by itself.

[kurisubrooks]

Duplicate of #76

[lipis]

You are right it's the grunt-electron-installer problem and I can see that the path or the file name or both are two long and that's why I put the whole thing in the root.. not sure if I can do anything more..

[lipis]

Changed the build directories.. but the same error:

[kurisubrooks]

Can you try running the command with --force? Let me know if that gives any errors.

[lipis]

Not much..

[kurisubrooks]

If you want, you could try running it through electron-packager in the command line.
https://github.com/maxogden/electron-packager#usage

Let me know if you'd like any help with it. It's pretty straight forward though.