Put dummy.stack into Error object, prevents Webpack removing line.

[etylermoss]

Previously Webpack would minify away the line from apparent lack of side effects. See https://github.com/warpdesign/bindings-webpack for a demo of this.

Solves:
#61
warpdesign/react-explorer#78
#54

[cacampbell]

pls sir my code is very sick. pls merge.

[etylermoss]

Ok so very strangely this fix worked on the demo project, but in my real project not so much. With Webpack mode: development it doesn't work, but with Webpack mode: production it does, which makes no kind of sense, perhaps something greater is at play?

[cacampbell]

Yeah, I am beginning to suspect the supernatural at this point.

Admittedly, my case is kindof ... unsupported?

I am trying to split the configuration of a vue project to build electron specific dependencies only for electron. I ended up adding the library node-hid to dependencies and using externals to get webpack on the front end to ignore it.

This worked! for both web environments and electron. But, netlify was not so forgiving of my crimes, and of course, tried to build node-hid, leading to an error when it fails to find the native usb library.

So, I set about trying to fix netlify for this configuration and moved node-hid from dependencies to optionalDependencies. Now it works on netlify, yay!

But, in electron, I began to run into the indexOf undefined issue. Where'd it come from? why now? what? The above change shouldn't have mattered, I think?

So yeah, something weird happens when you attempt to depend on a transitive native library? Something spooky.

[cacampbell]

I then tried just adding it to all externals with predictable results:

TypeError: node_hid__WEBPACK_IMPORTED_MODULE_0___default...

[cacampbell]

@ajmar hey, fyi I worked around this issue using the following method:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/50547649/using-node-js-addons-in-electrons-renderer-with-webpack

this worked 🤷