V3 Alpha!

I'm happy to announce the first alpha of v3 is here! This release mainly updates all dependencies and cleans up some legacy code. There are no docs yet and this hasn't been tested thoroughly so be careful when using this in production. Please give me feedback and issue reports so I can promote this to stable ASAP.

Key Features/Fixes

• Latest Electron versions are now supported in the generator
• Spectron is dropped in favor of Playwright which should provide a much better testing experience
• Webpack 5 is now used for the main process
• New native dependency checker is enabled by default (#861)
• A more secure custom protocol implementation is used that prevents path traversal (thanks to https://github.com/moloch--/reasonably-secure-electron for code)

Upgrading/Breaking Changes

• Install this version with vue add electron-builder@alpha
• Using Vue CLI v5 is recommended
• Remove the main field from your package.json
• Make sure your custom main process webpack config works with webpack v5
• background.js shouldn't require any changes, but you can remove the enableRemoteModule setting for Spectron if it's there
• Migrate from Spectron to Playwright: testWithSpectron has been renamed to testWithPlaywright, and doesn't take the Spectron import as an arg. The returned app is now a Playwright ElectronApplication instead of a Spectron instance, and stopServe has been renamed to stop. You don't need to install Playwright, it's a dependency of this plugin.
• In theory, everything else should continue to work as before, open an issue if it doesn't

TODO

• Support Mocha for testing (only Jest is supported for now)
• Update internal testing
• Update docs