I am trying to run simple tests on my electron application using Spectron and mocha. However, whenever I try to use the browserWindow API I obtain an error of the form:
TypeError: Cannot read property '.....' of undefined
I did a bit of research on the internet. Some proposed solutions I found were to ensure nodeIntegration is set to true, and that DevTools is not open on the application window. I have ensured that both these criteria are satisfied, but I am still receiving the same error. What am I missing here? I am attaching my code for reference.
main.js
const {app, BrowserWindow} = require('electron')
const path = require('path')
let mainWindow
function createWindow () {
mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
webPreferences: {
preload: path.join(__dirname, 'preload.js'),
nodeIntegration:true
}
})
mainWindow.loadFile('index.html')
}
app.whenReady().then(() => {
createWindow()
app.on('activate', function () {
if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) createWindow()
})
})
app.on('window-all-closed', function () {
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') app.quit()
})
test.js
const Application = require('spectron').Application
const assert = require('assert')
const electronPath = require('electron')
const path = require('path')
const { app } = require('electron')
const { expect } = require('chai')
describe('Application launch', function () {
this.timeout(10000)
before(function () {
this.app = new Application({
path: electronPath,
args: [path.join(__dirname, '.')]
})
return this.app.start()
})
after(function () {
if (this.app && this.app.isRunning()) {
return this.app.stop()
}
})
it('should be a focused window', function(){
return this.app.client.waitUntilWindowLoaded().browserWindow.isFocused().then(res => {
expect(res).to.be.true
})
})
})
The issue arises at the line this.app.client.waitUntilWindowLoaded().browserWindow.isFocused()