Build a Desktop App with Electron and Authentication

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Build a Desktop App with Electron and Authentication

Learn how to build a desktop application using Electron and React, then add authentication with OIDC.

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nikivancic

Despite the recent update (Sep 19), I am getting a TSC compilation problem shown below. What am I doing wrong?

https://uploads.disquscdn.c…

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Matt Raible

A similar issue was reported recently:

https://github.com/oktadeve…

I’ll take a look when I’m back from vacation next week.

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nikivancic

The problem is in the file flow.ts, which does not agree with the type definitions in node_modules/@openid/appauth/built folder

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Matt Raible

I fixed the problem in this pull request. I’ll update this blog post next week with these changes.

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Matt Raible

This blog post and its example have now been updated. Please let me know if you find any issues.

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Alejandro Guardiola

Hello, I am doing the same thing but using Angular the problem is it does not compile it throws errors like Can’t resolve ‘child_process’ in everything that has to be with nodejs I guess it does not recognize nodejs, any solution to this problem?

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Matt Raible

Can you please provide steps to reproduce this problem? Does it happen if you clone the GitHub repo, configure it for Okta, and run it?

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Alejandro Guardiola

I figured out, I had to change the module in the tsc file to AMD cuz electron runs in a node runtime and those libraries are node specific.

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Matt Raible

Thanks for reporting back and letting us know how you fixed it. :+1:

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aman1993

Hey, how do I change the default local host port ot to something else