[Question] What extra steps does electron-build take over node-gyp?

[glenn2223]

Firstly, sorry for dropping this on an issue (don't know of any other way to ask a question on github).

Ref: sass/node-sass#2862

Is there any inner workings of electron-rebuild that will stop me from running this

node-gyp rebuild --target=8.0.0 --arch=x64 --dist-url=https://electronjs.org/headers

rather than this

./node_modules/.bin/electron-rebuild -v=8 --arch=x64 -w node-sass

After doing this npm config set msbuild_path "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2019\Enterprise\MSBuild\Current\Bin\MSBuild.exe" to suppress the VS19 folder name issue with node-sass's native node-gyp@3.8.0

[malept]

For your use case, I would suggest prebuild - electron-rebuild's primary use case is rebuilding native modules for Electron apps, not providing build machinery for native modules.