Unable to use leveldown package using Electron

Question

When I try to build my applicaton using electron it crashes on leveldown library

Error: The module '/Users/macosx/Documents/Electron/node_modules/leveldown/build/Release/leveldown.node'
was compiled against a different Node.js version using
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 64. This version of Node.js requires
NODE_MODULE_VERSION 67. Please try re-compiling or re-installing

I have tried

rm -rf node_modules/leveldown
npm install

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npm rebuild leveldown--update-binary

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npm uninstall leveldown

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Also tried this

I had the same problem and nothing mentioned here worked for me. Here is what >worked for me:

Require all dependencies you need in the main.js file that is run by electron. (this seemed to be the first important part for me) Run npm i -D electron-rebuild to add the electron-rebuild package Remove the node-modules folder, as well as the packages-lock.json file. Run npm i to install all modules. Run ./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild to rebuild everything It is very important to run ./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild directly after npm i otherwise it did not work on my mac.

Answer 1

I struggled with this for a couple days. The trick is to use electron-rebuild to build the native node module, and to include the option node.__dirname = true in your webpack config, as the leveldown bindings.js depend on the __dirname global provided by Node.