Bundling dependencies into app.asar copies all files from local symlinks

[Nokel81]

Current behaviour:
I am working in a npm monorepo environment where local packages are symlinked into node_modules. Which mean that when I come to run electron-build --config ./my-config.js all the files within those local packages are included in the bundles

Expected behaviour:
Like other dependencies from npm, the only files that should be included are those that match the files field within each package.json. This happens implicitly for external dependencies because they are pulled down from npm.

Current workaround:
I can specify my own files array of glob includes and excludes within my-config.js but that is heavy handed and only works because our source code is in ts and our build artifacts are in js.

Things I tried:

• I tried looking at beforePack and afterPack but they don't provide the information or mechanism for blocking the inclusion of a file.
• I tried onNodeModuleFile but that is for forcing the inclusion of a file not forcing the exclusion

[mmaietta]

What version of electron-builder is this? Can you try on the latest release? 26.0.15

[Nokel81]

We are using 26.0.12 which is latest on npm

[mmaietta]

Well then try the most recent release 26.0.15

[Nokel81]

Tried, it had no effect

[bennyschmidt]

Solution here: #9124 (comment)