Make node integration work in electron

src/electron-main.ts

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+import { BrowserWindow, app } from 'electron';
+import * as path from 'path';
+
+// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
+// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
+let win: Electron.BrowserWindow;
+
+function createWindow() {
+    // Create the browser window.
+    win = new BrowserWindow({
+        width: 1024,
+        height: 768,
+        webPreferences: {
+            nodeIntegration: true
+        }
+    });
+    win.maximize();
+
+    const indexPath = path.resolve(__dirname, 'index.html');
+    // and load the index.html of the app.
+    win.loadURL(`file://${indexPath}`);
+
+    // Emitted when the window is closed.
+    win.on('closed', () => {
+        // Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
+        // in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
+        // when you should delete the corresponding element.
+        win = null;
+    });
+}
+
+// This method will be called when Electron has finished
+// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
+// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
+app.on('ready', createWindow);
+
+// Quit when all windows are closed.
+app.on('window-all-closed', () => {
+    // On macOS it is common for applications and their menu bar
+    // to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q
+    if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
+        app.quit();
+    }
+});
+
+app.on('activate', () => {
+    // On macOS it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
+    // dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
+    if (win === null) {
+        createWindow();
+    }
+});
+
+// In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process
+// code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here

src/tsconfig.json

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       "node",
       "jquery",
       "core-js",
-      "select2"
+      "select2",
+      "electron"
     ]
   },
   "exclude": [

src/webpack.config.electron.js

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+//var webpack = require("webpack");
+var webpackFailPlugin = require('webpack-fail-plugin');
+var path = require('path');
+
+var rootDir = path.resolve(__dirname, '../');
+
+module.exports = {
+    entry: ['./src/electron-main.ts'],
+    output: {
+        path: rootDir + "/dist",
+        filename: "electron-main.js"
+    },
+    target: 'electron',
+    devtool: 'source-map',
+    resolve: {
+        extensions: ['', '.webpack.js', '.web.js', '.ts', '.js'],
+        modules: [path.join(rootDir, "node_modules")]
+    },
+    module: {
+        loaders: [
+            { test: /\.ts$/, loader: 'ts-loader', exclude: /node_modules/ },
+    ]},
+    plugins: [
+        //   new webpack.optimize.UglifyJsPlugin({ minimize: true })
+        webpackFailPlugin
+    ],
+    node: {
+        __dirname: false,
+        __filename: false
+    }
+
+}