log file not appearing for a vite launched electron app

[open768]

I cant seem to find where electron-log writes the log file when an electron application is lauched using vite. (im using vutron as my scaffold)
I looked in my %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\ as suggested by the documentation (which in my case is on a network drive) and its not there. What is the correct way to expose the output filename?

However when the app is run outside of vite (in vanilla node) the log appears in the right place.
To find out where the file is written to, I modified the getFile function in main\transports\file\index.js file and it spat out the location

when running from vite, this code doesnt seem to get executed.
any help appreciated

[open768]

I added this code to find out whats happening and the file transport doesnt seem to be present when initialised from vite:

  for ( var [transName, transFn] of log.transportEntries(log.transports)){
    this.info(`log Transport: ${transName}`)

which gives
17:44:18.307 ÔÇ║ WARN: ***** unable to find log file transport
17:44:18.307 ÔÇ║ INFO: log Transport: console
17:44:18.307 ÔÇ║ INFO: log Transport: ipc

ie no filetransport there!

[megahertz]

I'm not sure what's the reason. Try to import 'electron-log/main' instead of 'electron-log'

[open768]

solved using a bit of a hack ;-)

'use strict'

import log from "electron-log"
import fileTransportFactory from "electron-log/src/main/transports/file/index.js"
import { getPathVariables } from "electron-log/src/main/transports/file/variables.js"

// check if file transport is present
if (!log.transports.file) {
    log.warn("unable to find log file transport - adding filetransport")
    log.transports.file = fileTransportFactory(log)
}
const oVars = getPathVariables(process.platform)
log.info(`file will be output to ${oVars.libraryDefaultDir}`)

[open768]

problem was that in the vutron/vuetify/vite scaffold somewhere it sets the the main process to be called renderer, even though its not! 😁

[megahertz]

'electron-log/main' should be helpful in that case. Anyway, will check that with new e2e test

[megahertz]

Just tested, vite can't detect the main/renderer entry point correctly, so 'electron-log/main', 'electron-log/renderer' should be used.