• Etcher version: 1.19.21
• Operating system and architecture: archlinux x86_64 with 6.9.4-zen1-1-zen
• Image flashed: nixos-minimal-22.05.3065.178fea1414a-x86_64-linux.iso
• What do you think should have happened:
• What happened:
• Do you see any meaningful error information in the DevTools?

Hello, I'm one of the maintainers of the AUR package balena-etcher, And I built etcher from source for archlinux utilizing systemwide electron and node.

The build scripts are in AUR repo, mainly in the PKGBUILD

Below are the details:

1. run package command

npm install
npm run package

2. the built artifacts are in out/, within it balenaEtcher-linux-* looks like the package structure for deb and rpm
3. I find there is an etcher-util appears in both out/balenaEtcher-linux-*/resources/ and out/sidecar.
   There is also a src dir in out/sidecar. From the compiling process below
   

   etcher/forge.sidecar.ts

   Lines 79 to 98 in c748c2a

   	commands.push([
   	'pkg',
   	[
   	path.join(sourcesDir, 'util', 'api.js'),
   	'-c',
   	'pkg-sidecar.json',
   	// `--no-bytecode` so that we can cross-compile for arm64 on x64
   	'--no-bytecode',
   	'--public',
   	'--public-packages',
   	'"*"',
   	// always build for host platform and node version
   	// https://github.com/vercel/pkg-fetch/releases
   	'--target',
   	`node20-${arch}`,
   	'--output',
   	binPath,
   	],
   	]);
   	});

It is equivalent to node util/api.js. So I wrote a wrapper named etcher-util to replace the binary file and it works fine.

Here is my problem: even though I can get rid of etcher-util binary in the built package, I have to build it in the building procedure. Is there any way that I can build only js scripts in out/sidecar/src but not the final binary file?

Thanks