I have a couple .JSON files I would like my application to expose to users; I'm not sure I understand how the electron-packager wants me to make these available to users. If i put them in the static folder, for example, they turn up in an unpackaged folder within the project's dist folder.
I am using Quasar's framework to manage the electron side of things.
In the end, I used fs.readFileSync since it takes an absolute file path. I simply assigned it a path based on the environment. The main obstruction was webpack; I just couldn't find a way during build to mitigate require calls being compiled (aliasing didn't seem to make any difference).
Not, perhaps, the most elegant solution but sufficient for the purposes of simply reading a JSON file on launch (which is all I need it for).