electron-patch-fs

Monkey patch electrons fs functions with the original ones

Electron patches the native fs functions open and openSync which can lead to errors when dealing with .asar file operations like copying and unzipping.

To avoid these errors electron-patch-fs brings back the native functionality.

Install

npm install electron-patch-fs

Basic usage

patchFs.patch()

Monkey patch the file system functions and replace them with the original ones. This goes for the functions open and openSync.

Note: Repeated calls will throw an exception ( unpatch first again ).

patchFs.unpatch()

Undo monkey patch and bring back electrons patched fs functions.

Note: Repeated calls will throw an exception ( patch first ).

Example

const patchFs = require( 'electron-patch-fs' );
const fs      = require( 'fs' );
 
// monkey patch the file system functions
// and replace them with the original ones
patchFs.patch();
 
fs.open( '/some/path/foo.asar', 'r', function() {
  // undo monkey patch and bring back electrons
  // patched fs functions
  patchFs.unpatch();
} );

Thanks

I want to thank all these people for their great work!!!

License

MIT