Template (base) is not compatible with this version of Electron Forge

[zwpro]

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Forge version

7.7.0

Electron version

35

Operating system

window11

Last known working Forge version

No response

Expected behavior

Create a New Application
npx create-electron-app@latest my-app

Actual behavior

npx create-electron-app@latest my-app

An unhandled rejection has occurred inside Forge:
Error: Template (base) is not compatible with this version of Electron Forge (7.7.0), it requires 6.1.1

Steps to reproduce

npx create-electron-app@latest my-app

Additional information

No response

[erickzhao]

Hi @zwpro,

Forge has some sneaky undefined behaviour around resolving templates that are installed globally. The error message you're reporting may be from you having a copy of Forge v6.1.1 already globally installed on your system.

Can you check if this is true with npm list -g --depth=0 or yarn global list?

[zwpro]

@erickzhao
Perfect, yarn has installed version 6.1.1 globally, thank you

[erickzhao]

Glad I could help! For Electron Forge 8, I will bring up with other maintainers to see if we can remove the global template feature from our code to avoid footguns like this.