webpack.config.main.dev.js

/**
 * Webpack config for production electron main process
 */

import webpack from 'webpack';
import merge from 'webpack-merge';
import baseConfig from './webpack.config.base';

export default merge.smart(baseConfig, {
  devtool: 'inline-source-map',

  mode: 'development',

  target: 'electron-main',

  entry: './app/main',

  output: {
    path: __dirname,
    filename: './app/main.dev.js'
  },

  plugins: [
    /**
     * Create global constants which can be configured at compile time.
     *
     * Useful for allowing different behaviour between development builds and
     * release builds
     *
     * NODE_ENV should be production so that modules do not perform certain
     * development checks
     */
    new webpack.EnvironmentPlugin({
      NODE_ENV: 'development'
    })
  ],

  /**
   * Disables webpack processing of __dirname and __filename.
   * If you run the bundle in node.js it falls back to these values of node.js.
   * https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/2010
   */
  node: {
    __dirname: false,
    __filename: false
  }
});