Electron Project not working on New Mac Air 2

Question

I am trying to clone a project from this repo: https://github.com/ruidfigueiredo/electron-cgi-calculator-demo. But once I do npm install, I get these errors:

npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path /Users/mohitbhavsar/Desktop/electron-cgi-calculator-demo-

master/node_modules/electron
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command sh -c -- node install.js
Downloading tmp-1202-0-electron-v4.0.4-darwin-arm64.zip
npm ERR! Error: GET https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v4.0.4/electron-v4.0.4-darwin-arm64.zip returned 404
npm ERR! /Users/mohitbhavsar/Desktop/electron-cgi-calculator-demo-master/node_modules/electron/install.js:49
npm ERR!   throw err
npm ERR!   ^
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Error: Failed to find Electron v4.0.4 for darwin-arm64 at https://github.com/electron/electron/releases/download/v4.0.4/electron-v4.0.4-darwin-arm64.zip
npm ERR!     at Request.<anonymous> (/Users/mohitbhavsar/Desktop/electron-cgi-calculator-demo-master/node_modules/nugget/index.js:169:61)
npm ERR!     at Request.emit (node:events:513:28)
npm ERR!     at Request.onRequestResponse (/Users/mohitbhavsar/Desktop/electron-cgi-calculator-demo-master/node_modules/request/request.js:1066:10)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:513:28)
npm ERR!     at HTTPParser.parserOnIncomingClient [as onIncoming] (node:_http_client:693:27)
npm ERR!     at HTTPParser.parserOnHeadersComplete (node:_http_common:117:17)
npm ERR!     at TLSSocket.socketOnData (node:_http_client:534:22)
npm ERR!     at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:513:28)
npm ERR!     at addChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:324:12)
npm ERR!     at readableAddChunk (node:internal/streams/readable:297:9)
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Node.js v18.12.0

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/mohitbhavsar/.npm/_logs/2023-02-06T17_07_35_382Z-debug-0.log

Next, when I do npm start, the project opens up but I an unable to click anything and no changes are made to the app. What should I do?

I installed electron and electron-cgi packages as well but still it doesnt work.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '23 at 17:26

From https://www.npmjs.com/package/electron,

macOS (High Sierra and up): Electron provides 64-bit Intel and ARM binaries for macOS. Apple Silicon support was added in Electron 11.

So use a much more recent version of Electron.

You'll have to ask the project owner nicely or probably fork it and change it yourself.

Alternatively, you could try overriding the dependency version.

Electron Project not working on New Mac Air 2

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