"Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined" in nw.js window opened using nw.Window.open()

Question

I feel like I am missing something simple.

I'm developing a "tray" application in nw.js. To do this I set "main" to a "main.js" file in my package.json. In main.js I instantiate a Tray object and call nw.Window.open('file://' + path.join(__dirname, 'index.html')) on the click event of the tray object.

It's all working fine, except I am not able to use require in any scripts inside index.html. I get an error saying:

Uncaught ReferenceError: require is not defined

Note that if I set "main" to "index.html" in the package.json, everything works fine. The problem only shows up when open index.html using nw.Window.open('file://' + path.join(__dirname, 'index.html')).

I have a feeling it has something to do with the node-remote option in package.json, but I can't quite figure it out.

Answer 1

Replacing

nw.Window.open('file://' + path.join(__dirname, 'index.html'))

with

nw.Window.open('index.html')

did the trick.