require(electron) is not defined

[capitanhazel]

Context

Good morning, i'm having a persistent issue across all electron projects, including test projects. Nothing seems to get this strange issue away. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Note

There is one additional error:

VS Code console is showing strange errors when opening devtools inside of electron. Bug?

[14312:1030/100255.584:ERROR:CONSOLE(1)] "Request Autofill.setAddresses failed. {"code":-32601,"message":"'Autofill.setAddresses' wasn't found"}", source: devtools://devtools/bundled/core/protocol_client/protocol_client.js (1)

View the project files

I downloaded the example project via this repo itself

since electron does not come installed with the project, i used the bash commands from README.md

Error

> Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined
    at main.js:1

Things i've tried

None working as of now...

• Uninstalled & reinstalled electron
• Checked global installations for electron
• Researched with AI
• Installed latest version of electron

Version & info

index.html is loading properly, along with preload.js & renderer.js

IDE	VSCode
OS	Windows 10
Package manage	NPM
Node	Node.js 20.18.0
Electron	33.0.2
Chromium	130.0.6723.59

Thanks for reading, here, take this 🍪 Virtual cookie.