ENOENT: no such file or directory capacitor.config.json

[woutersteven]

Describe the bug

Error, when Capacitor v5 (angular) project has capacitor.config.ts file (but not a JSON file). When running the Windows executable, or when running the command:

npx electron .\build\src\index.js

I get the error:

Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'C:\FOLDER\electron\build\src\capacitor.config.json"

This is after necessary changes were made to run everything as ESModules.

package.json

{
  "name": "name",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "An Amazing Capacitor App",
  "author": {
    "name": "",
    "email": "email@address.com"
  },
  "repository": {
    "type": "git",
    "url": ""
  },
  "type": "module",
  "license": "MIT",
  "engines": {
    "node": ">=16"
  },
  "exports": "./build/src/index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "build": "tsc",
    "electron:start-live": "node ./live-runner.cjs",
    "electron:start": "npm run build && electron --inspect=5858 ./",
    "electron:pack": "npm run build && electron-builder build --dir -c ./electron-builder.config.json",
    "electron:make": "npm run build && electron-builder build -c ./electron-builder.config.json -p always"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "@capacitor-community/electron": "^5.0.1",
    "chokidar": "~3.6.0",
    "electron-is-dev": "~3.0.1",
    "electron-serve": "~2.0.0",
    "electron-unhandled": "~5.0.0",
    "electron-updater": "^6.2.1",
    "electron-window-state": "^5.0.3"
  },
  "devDependencies": {
    "electron": "^30.0.3",
    "electron-builder": "~24.13.3",
    "typescript": "^5.4.5"
  }
}

tsconfig.json

{
  "compileOnSave": true,
  "include": ["./src/**/*", "./capacitor.config.ts", "./capacitor.config.js"],
  "compilerOptions": {
    "outDir": "./build",
    "importHelpers": true,
    "target": "ES2017",
    "module": "Node16",
    "moduleResolution": "Node16",
    "esModuleInterop": true,
    "typeRoots": ["./node_modules/@types"],
    "allowJs": true,
    "rootDir": ".",
    "skipLibCheck": true,
  }
}

After running "electron:pack", i can see in the ./build folder that a capacitor.config.js file is present, but not the .json file.

I am guessing that the search for "capacitor.config.json" is hard-coded?