fix: fixes #348 - version information in the about page

Signed-off-by: Pawel Psztyc <[email protected]>

Author: jarrodek

src/io/start.js

@@ -78,6 +78,10 @@ export default async function start(startTime) {
   app.commandLine.appendSwitch('enable-experimental-web-platform-features');
   app.commandLine.appendSwitch('disable-features', 'OutOfBlinkCors');
 
+  // Sets the application version in a global variable so the renderer process 
+  // has this information without querying for it.
+  process.env.ARC_VERSION = app.getVersion();
+
   process.on('uncaughtException', (error) => {
     if (error.message) {
       logger.error(error.message);

src/preload/arc-preload.esm.js

@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ import { GoogleDriveProxy } from './GoogleDriveProxy.js';
 import { GoogleAnalytics } from './GoogleAnalytics.js';
 
 const env = {};
-const APP_VERSION = process.env.npm_package_version;
+const APP_VERSION = process.env.ARC_VERSION;
 Object.keys(process.env).forEach((key) => {
   if (key.indexOf('npm_') === 0 || key.indexOf('ARC_') === 0) {
     return;