fix: 🐛 Fix electron not inheriting path variable in production (#1948)

ui/desktop/electron-app/package.json

@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
     "node-html-parser": "^5.3.3",
     "node-pty": "^1.0.0",
     "semver": "^7.5.3",
+    "shell-env": "^3.0.1",
     "shell-quote": "^1.7.3",
     "tree-kill": "^1.2.2"
   },

ui/desktop/electron-app/src/index.js

@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ const sessionManager = require('./services/session-manager.js');
 const menu = require('./config/menu.js');
 const appUpdater = require('./helpers/app-updater.js');
 const { isMac, isLinux } = require('./helpers/platform.js');
+const fixPath = require('./utils/fixPath');
 const isDev = require('electron-is-dev');
 
 // Register the custom file protocol
@@ -48,6 +49,10 @@ protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged([
   },
 ]);
 
+// This is to correctly set the process.env.PATH as electron does not
+// correctly inherit the path variable in production
+fixPath();
+
 const createWindow = (partition, closeWindowCB) => {
   /**
    * Enable electron OS window frame/chrome for MacOS only.

ui/desktop/electron-app/src/utils/fixPath.js

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+const { isWindows } = require('../helpers/platform.js');
+const shellEnv = require('shell-env');
+
+// Utility function to help correctly set the PATH variable on unix systems
+// Inspired by https://github.com/sindresorhus/fix-path
+const fixPath = () => {
+  if (isWindows()) {
+    return;
+  }
+
+  const { PATH } = shellEnv.sync();
+  process.env.PATH =
+    PATH ||
+    [
+      './node_modules/.bin',
+      '/.nodebrew/current/bin',
+      '/usr/local/bin',
+      process.env.PATH,
+    ].join(':');
+};
+
+module.exports = fixPath;

ui/desktop/electron-app/yarn.lock

@@ -438,6 +438,11 @@ ansi-escapes@^4.3.0:
   dependencies:
     type-fest "^0.21.3"
 
+ansi-regex@^4.1.0:
+  version "4.1.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/ansi-regex/-/ansi-regex-4.1.1.tgz#164daac87ab2d6f6db3a29875e2d1766582dabed"
+  integrity sha512-ILlv4k/3f6vfQ4OoP2AGvirOktlQ98ZEL1k9FaQjxa3L1abBgbuTDAdPOpvbGncC0BTVQrl+OM8xZGK6tWXt7g==
+
 ansi-regex@^5.0.0, ansi-regex@^5.0.1:
   version "5.0.1"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/ansi-regex/-/ansi-regex-5.0.1.tgz#082cb2c89c9fe8659a311a53bd6a4dc5301db304"
@@ -988,6 +993,11 @@ decompress@^4.2.1:
     pify "^2.3.0"
     strip-dirs "^2.0.0"
 
+default-shell@^1.0.1:
+  version "1.0.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/default-shell/-/default-shell-1.0.1.tgz#752304bddc6174f49eb29cb988feea0b8813c8bc"
+  integrity sha512-/Os8tTMPSriNHCsVj3VLjMZblIl1sIg8EXz3qg7C5K+y9calfTA/qzlfPvCQ+LEgLWmtZ9wCnzE1w+S6TPPFyQ==
+
 defaults@^1.0.3:
   version "1.0.3"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/defaults/-/defaults-1.0.3.tgz#c656051e9817d9ff08ed881477f3fe4019f3ef7d"
@@ -3027,6 +3037,15 @@ shebang-regex@^3.0.0:
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/shebang-regex/-/shebang-regex-3.0.0.tgz#ae16f1644d873ecad843b0307b143362d4c42172"
   integrity sha512-7++dFhtcx3353uBaq8DDR4NuxBetBzC7ZQOhmTQInHEd6bSrXdiEyzCvG07Z44UYdLShWUyXt5M/yhz8ekcb1A==
 
+shell-env@^3.0.1:
+  version "3.0.1"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/shell-env/-/shell-env-3.0.1.tgz#515a62f6cbd5e139365be2535745e8e53438ce77"
+  integrity sha512-b09fpMipAQ9ObwvIeKoQFLDXcEcCpYUUZanlad4OYQscw2I49C/u97OPQg9jWYo36bRDn62fbe07oWYqovIvKA==
+  dependencies:
+    default-shell "^1.0.1"
+    execa "^1.0.0"
+    strip-ansi "^5.2.0"
+
 shell-quote@^1.7.3:
   version "1.7.3"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/shell-quote/-/shell-quote-1.7.3.tgz#aa40edac170445b9a431e17bb62c0b881b9c4123"
@@ -3191,6 +3210,13 @@ string_decoder@~1.1.1:
   dependencies:
     ansi-regex "^5.0.1"
 
+strip-ansi@^5.2.0:
+  version "5.2.0"
+  resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/strip-ansi/-/strip-ansi-5.2.0.tgz#8c9a536feb6afc962bdfa5b104a5091c1ad9c0ae"
+  integrity sha512-DuRs1gKbBqsMKIZlrffwlug8MHkcnpjs5VPmL1PAh+mA30U0DTotfDZ0d2UUsXpPmPmMMJ6W773MaA3J+lbiWA==
+  dependencies:
+    ansi-regex "^4.1.0"
+
 strip-ansi@^6.0.0:
   version "6.0.0"
   resolved "https://registry.yarnpkg.com/strip-ansi/-/strip-ansi-6.0.0.tgz#0b1571dd7669ccd4f3e06e14ef1eed26225ae532"