Empty log dir at default location for Electron with ESM

[raphaelmenges]

Hello 👋

I am using Electron in an ESM environment (which is soon to be available without workaround) together with electron-log. I need to change the location of the log file. However, I cannot prohibit electron-log from creating an empty directory with the name from my package.json. I guess it has something to do with how import works differently from require, because a similar issue had been resolved for the latter. I have created a minimal reproduction of the bug here: https://github.com/raphaelmenges/electron-log-empty-dir-bug.

This is how the Logs directory looks on my Mac after execution:

Here is where I create the app:
https://github.com/raphaelmenges/electron-log-empty-dir-bug/blob/main/packages/main/src/app.ts

Here is where I setup the log:
https://github.com/raphaelmenges/electron-log-empty-dir-bug/blob/main/packages/main/src/log.ts

Here is where I combine both:
https://github.com/raphaelmenges/electron-log-empty-dir-bug/blob/main/packages/main/src/index.ts

It does not hurt the UX but feels weird to have an empty directory created with no use!

[megahertz]

Thank you for the sample. That dir is created automatically when app.getPath('logs') is called. Now it's called lazily to prevent that.

[raphaelmenges]

Thank you very much @megahertz for the quick fix and release of 5.0.0-rc.1. Can confirm it fixes the issue for me as well!