Add Electron Fuses to the packaging pipeline

[erickzhao]

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Problem description

In Electron, Fuses are package-time toggle features that can disable certain features on a per-app basis. For example, apps might not want to ship with the ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE capability, and can turn it off for their app with a fuse.

See https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/fuses

Proposed solution

Forge should include a way to easily configure fuses in the packaging process.

Alternatives considered

This can be implemented in various manners in the Forge process, and we don't really have existing guidelines on which one is better:

• As an opt-in plugin
• As a built-in part of the Forge config
• As a written how-to guide in the Forge docs

Additional information

No response

[erikian]

Going for a plugin would potentially help with modularization, though it doesn't look like it's going to take a lot of code (@electron/fuses' docs show a complete example in just a few LOC), so maybe it can be just built into Forge (or packager?) directly. Either way, I'd happy to take on this once an approach is decided.

[pacocoursey]

@erikian Why close that PR? It looked perfect for adding Fuses support in both places. Has anyone made a plugin to do support using Fuses through Forge/Packager yet?

[SpacingBat3]

@erickzhao As a workaround / current way how to use Fuses with Electron Forge, you can use hooks like this:

const { flipFuses } = require("@electron/fuses");
const { resolve } = require("path");

const electronPath = new Map([
	/* PLATFORM                                BINARY */
	[ "darwin", "Electron.app/Contents/MacOS/Electron" ],
	[ "win32",                          "electron.exe" ],
	[ "linux",                              "electron" ]
]);

module.exports = {
	// (...)
	hooks: {
		packageAfterExtract: (_forgeConfig, path, _electronVersion, platform) =>
			flipFuses(resolve(path, electronPath.get(platform)), {
				// Insert you Fuse config there.
			})
	},
	// (...)
}