Child process not starting and returning an error

[SRWieZ]

What were you trying to do?

Start a child process

What happened?

It seems that the request to electron to start the process returns null.

https://flareapp.io/share/qm1bXQ2P

How to reproduce the bug

ChildProcess::artisan(
    cmd: 'app:directories-watcher',
    alias: 'git',
    persistent: true
);

Package Versions

0.6.1

PHP Version

8.3.13

Laravel Version

10.48.22

Node Version

21.7.3

Which operating systems have you seen this occur on?

macOS

OS version

15.1

Notes

@simonhamp, you have access to my repository. It may be easier for reproducing the bug.

[simonhamp]

I managed to get everything running... maybe I need to see the state of things on your machine to see what's up?

[SRWieZ]

Oh, that's a bummer.

Thank you for trying. I will come back when I know more.

From my understanding, the request to start the job returns null.

Is there any place I can look, like a Node.js error log?
Also, I'm on an Intel Mac; is that something that could be related to the bug?

P.S. I had already tried removing the node_modules directory and vendor (just listened to your podcast ^^).

[simonhamp]

Make sure you're running the latest version of nativephp/electron (0.8.3 as of right now) - a composer update won't be enough to do this if your composer.json version constraint doesn't look something like ^0.8 - you'll have to composer require nativephp/electron

[simonhamp]

I've put a bit of work already into surfacing runtime errors in the terminal, which should help when you're using native:serve - but you won't get this unless you're on the latest version

[SRWieZ]

That was it.

I am ashamed; I did verify that I was on the latest version of every package before posting the issue with
composer show "nativephp/*" --format=json

Fixed by upgrading to 8.*
composer require nativephp/electron -W

[simonhamp]

No shame in it! This will be easier once we're past v1