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So not sure why just yet but i’m getting a Javascript error when launching the Electron exe. I tried to spawn a child process called pwsh in Node and didn’t see any errors. Only Core I have installed is pwsh 7 preview 4

A JavaScript error occurred in the main process
Uncaught Exception:
Error: spawn pwsh ENOENT
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:264:19)
at onErrorNT (internal/child_process.js:456:16)
at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:84:9)

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What does your dashboard.ps1 look like? Do you have the -Wait parameter on Start-UDDashboard?

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I actually just copied your Burnt Toast example verbatim

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Weird. It appears it’s failing to start pwsh but you said you can launch it fine. I was looking at this and it seems like we might be able to call exec to get more info: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27688804/how-do-i-debug-error-spawn-enoent-on-node-js

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Seems to be a problem with Powershell 7. If I call
use child = child_process.spawn(“powershell”, ["-file", “C:\dashboard.ps1”]);

It runs the Dashboard, wich is weird because I can call pwsh from command line

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Hey @adam, Electron always gets beat up for garglin sticks of RAM for breakfast (its like people need something new to throw hate at now that Java is slowly disappearing) - What kind of resource does the sample BurntToast app consume when running?

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Another question,

Since Powershell Core is a requirement, will any UDforge app be limited to the modules available to Powershell core?

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It was using about 150 mb ram for that example. You can use Windows PowerShell with it. You just need to specify the -PowerShellHost parameter and set it to PowerShell rather than pwsh.

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One thing I don’t like about it is the storage footprint. Electron is about 50 MB and UD is about 50 MB. I think we’ll add another 60 MBish if you include PWSH. I bet I can get UD half that size by finally targeting netstandard properly. But it’s still a pretty big payload.

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I dont feel like it’s that bad, not for a desktop app. But there might be other reasons to reduce (efficiency/ build time etc).

200MB shouldn’t brake anyone’s storage budget :stuck_out_tongue:

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I’m VERY interested in UDForge. I currently tinker with PowerShell Studio, and I do mean tinker, I’m a noob to PS but was more interested in GUI tool, but that can run PS commands. I love the Electron Apps I have viewed before. My “Dream” of what UDForge could be is a multi-use .ps1 file app,because I would like to see the ability of just pushing/updating changed .ps1 files,but Electron app might not be able to do that as I thought it was like a single image file. Not sure.

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@PorreKaj > I agree, apps nowadays eat up large space. I do not think most end-user people know or care. Agreed, 200MB is fine. Heck, take 300-400 if you must, just run good and don’t lock up my pc. :slight_smile:

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I am having similar difficulty that is mentioned about possible dependency issue. Although, I am not sure what is going on. The Electron app launches, and then looks like it is trying to do something, but never launches an app. On my PC I installedUDForge, UD it runs fine. Did I miss something, or doing something wrong? BTW, I am using Windows Sandbox in Win10 64 Bit so that may be the issues if it needs other components it is unable to locate.