How do I use two versions of Electron on the same machine

Question

When I first started to learn Election the book I was using recommended that it be installed using npm install -g electron. Now I read on the npm website that npm install electron --save-dev is the preferred way to install it.

So I created a new project directory and ran npm init then ran npm install electron --save-dev. According to package.json Electron 1.7.5 was installed, but when I type electron in the project directory it reports version 1.6.10 which is the version that was installed with the -g option.

Is there a way to get my new project to use 1.7.5? I have already completed a small project using version 1.6.10 and don't want to do anything that would keep it from running.

Thanks, Jim

Answer 1

You can run the local version of electron out of the node_modules/.bin directly -- most likely it will be called node_modules/.bin/electron .

You can use npm or gulp (or even a shellscript/batch file) to run the app for you.