Merge pull request #270 from oslabs-beta/dev

Made changes to how electron accesses user local storage to create successful builds

Author: egrobar

.gitignore

@@ -58,5 +58,4 @@ ehthumbs.db
 
 # proto files #
 #####################
-src/client/components/composer/protos
-*.proto
+protos/

package.json

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
     "package-linux": "electron-builder build --linux",
     "gh-publish-mac": "electron-builder build --x64 --mac -p always",
     "gh-publish": "electron-builder build -mwl -p always",
-    "postinstall": "npm rebuild --runtime=electron --target=7.0.1"
+    "postinstall": "npm rebuild grpc --runtime=electron --target=7.0.1"
   },
   "author": {
     "name": "Swell",

src/client/components/composer/protos/saveProto.proto

@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@ const protoLoader = require('@grpc/proto-loader');
 const path = require('path');
 const uuid = require('uuid');
 
-
 async function protoParserFunc(protoBodyData) {
 
   // define storage for .proto parsed content
@@ -15,21 +14,31 @@ async function protoParserFunc(protoBodyData) {
   let protoID = Math.floor(Math.random() * 10000);
   //if file path for that ID already exists, increment the ID
   try {
-    while (fs.existsSync('src/client/components/composer/protos/' + protoID + '.proto')) {
+    if (!fs.existsSync(path.join(process.resourcesPath, '/protos/'))) {
+      fs.mkdirSync(path.join(process.resourcesPath, '/protos/'));
+    }
+  }catch(err) {
+    console.error(err)
+  }
+
+  try {
+    while (fs.existsSync(path.join(process.resourcesPath, '/protos/' + protoID + '.proto'))) {
       //if file name exists try incrementing by 1
       protoID += 1;
     }
   } catch(err) {
     console.error(err)
   }
-  // const dirName = remote.app.getAppPath(); // remote.app.getAppPath() stopped working at some point so switched to process.cwd()
+  // const dirName = remote.app.getAppPath(); // remote.app.getAppPath() stopped working at some point so switched to process.resourcesPath
 
   // write to saveProto file for interaction with the server
-  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(process.cwd(), 'src/client/components/composer/protos/' + protoID + '.proto'), protoBodyData, 'utf-8');
+  fs.writeFileSync(path.join(process.resourcesPath, '/protos/' + protoID + '.proto'), protoBodyData, 'utf-8');
 
   // define the modular client for testing
   // declare path variable of imported proto file
-  const PROTO_PATH = path.join(process.cwd(), 'src/client/components/composer/protos/' + protoID + '.proto');
+
+
+  const PROTO_PATH = path.join(process.resourcesPath, '/protos/' + protoID + '.proto');
 
   // create gRPC package options
   const protoOptionsObj = {