Configure executable output directory.

[aslilac]

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Currently electron-packager is just always called on a directory named "out". It would be nice if we could control the name of this directory, preferable by just allowing us to set the "out" property for "packagerConfig".

[GrandSchtroumpf]

Is there any plan concerning this issue ? I'm working in a monorepo with several applications and would be great to be able to specify out path.

[nishant-labs]

It will be great if anyone could make this happen, really annoying while working in monorepo

[CMCDragonkai]

This will be really helpful in NixOS, we cannot mutate the input directories inside /nix/store. It's important to set the output directory.

[hadwrf]

I need to modify out directory. It should be configurable.

[jeanbmar]

PR #2714 submitted, I can't use Electron without this feature either.

[Jimbly]

Looks like this issue has been resolved by #3458 and can be closed. As it's not in the docs yet, I'm copying the information from that thread to here for anyone else who finds this issue as the first result on Google =):

Via forge.config.js:

module.exports = {
  outDir: 'my-out-dir',
}

Via package.json:

{
  "config": {
    "forge": {
      "outDir": "my-out-dir"
    }
  }
}

[erickzhao]

Fixed in electron-forge/electron-forge-docs#214