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For an application that is built using Electron you'll need to have the engines.electron set to the version of Electron that you are targeting in your root package.json file.

For example if you have an Electron app that's targeting version 0.20.7 your package.json file would look something like:

{
  "name": "elec-app",
  "displayName": "My Electron app",
  "version": "0.0.1",
  "description": "",
  "main": "main.js",
  "author": "",
  "engines": {
    "electron": "0.20.7"
  }
}

And when doing an npm install or apm install inside of your Electron's root folder it will compile NodeGit targeting that version of Electron during the install.

NOTE: there are no pre-built binaries for Electron, you must rebuild NodeGit. Visit our building guides for help