tests with better-sqlite3 do not work in electron-vue project

[sumdog]

I originally reported this on the electron issue tracker and also created a stack overflow post for this, but I thought this might be more a better-sqlite3 issue, so I'm creating the issue here as well.

I'm using the vue-electron boilerplate with the better-sqlite3 library, however whenever I try to run unit tests using yarn test (which calls npm) I get the following error:

08 12 2017 23:45:19.463:INFO [karma]: Karma v1.7.1 server started at http://0.0.0.0:9876/
08 12 2017 23:45:19.465:INFO [launcher]: Launching browser visibleElectron with unlimited concurrency
08 12 2017 23:45:19.530:INFO [launcher]: Starting browser Electron
08 12 2017 23:45:20.577:INFO [Electron 1.7.9 (Node 7.9.0)]: Connected on socket pezqFj1bsIJV52JrAAAA with id 7899584
Electron 1.7.9 (Node 7.9.0) ERROR
  Uncaught Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
   → /home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/better_sqlite3.node
   → /home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Debug/better_sqlite3.node
   → /home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/better_sqlite3.node
   → /home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/out/Debug/better_sqlite3.node
   → /home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/Debug/better_sqlite3.node
   → /home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/out/Release/better_sqlite3.node
   → /home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/Release/better_sqlite3.node
   → /home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/default/better_sqlite3.node
   → /home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/compiled/7.9.0/linux/x64/better_sqlite3.node
  at webpack:///node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:96:0 <- index.js:30116

Even though the bindings do exist:

find $HOME/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/ -name "*node"
/home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/test_extension.node
/home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/better_sqlite3.node
/home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/obj.target/test_extension.node
/home/cassius/workspace/tagister/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/obj.target/better_sqlite3.node

I know to get better-sqlite3 to work in development mode, I had to add "postinstall": "electron-builder install-app-deps" to the scripts section of my package.json. Is there anything I need to do specifically to make this package available in the tests or is this some kind of electron bug?

Reproduce

git clone https://gitlab.com/djsumdog/tagster.git
git checkout ca712c4c
yarn
yarn test

[JoshuaWise]

I've never used electron, but other people who have reported electron-related bugs have fixed them all by using electron-rebuild.

[JoshuaWise]

closed in favor of #126

[mandaputtra]

i'm still had this error with electron rebuild