Use elemon only in dev about elemon HOT 2 CLOSED

@richardtape you are right. elemon is a tool that you need it only in development. Essentially, in order to achieve what you want, I can think of 3 ways at this moment. Methods 2 and 3 require to use electron-is-dev.

1. Have 2 different package.json files. This refers to two package.json structure.
2. elemon uses electron-is-dev internally. Then, users install it like npm i elemon --save. This means users don't need to guard it for production. However, I don't like this because elemon has a dependency (chokidar) and it means all these dependency modules will be bundled in your final app while you don't need them.
3. Users (like you) use electron-is-dev and use elemon like the following example. I believe this is better since electron-is-dev is just 2 lines of code and doesn't have any dependencies. So, it basically doesn't hurt to be included in your final app in terms of size and other stuff.

So, you can do something like this:
npm i electron-is-dev --save
npm i elemon --save-dev

const {app, BrowserWindow} = require('electron')
const isDev = require('electron-is-dev')

function createWindows () {
  // ...
}

app.on('ready', () => {
  createWindows()

  if (isDev) {
    const elemon = require('elemon') // require elemon if electron is in dev
    elemon({
      app: app,
      mainFile: 'main.js',
      bws: [
        {bw: win1, res: ['win1.html', 'win1.js', 'style.css']},
        {bw: win2, res: ['win2.html', 'win2.js', 'style.css']}
      ]
    })
  }
})

Hopefully this helps you in your issue. Please let us know if you need further assistance.

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