Electron: Loading non-context-aware native module in renderer; This is deprecated...

[pattrickrice]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Current Electron release (v9) emits a deprecation warning. v11 will disable the ability to import without context-awareness

(node:86166) Electron: Loading non-context-aware native module in renderer: '<my-project>/node_modules/grpc/src/node/extension_binary/electron-v9.0-darwin-x64-unknown/grpc_node.node'. This is deprecated, see https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18397.

Describe the solution you'd like

Support for electron v9+

Describe alternatives you've considered

No alternatives, maybe not using grpc-node?

Additional context

n/a

[murgatroid99]

I believe this is the same root issue as in #778. This is blocked by nodejs/nan#844, which I filed over a year ago. There has been no recent maintainer activity on that issue so I don't expect it to happen any time soon.

I suggest switching to @grpc/grpc-js, which is the primary gRPC implementation that we will be supporting going forward. That library does not use a native module, so it will not be impacted by this issue.

[murgatroid99]

At this point, the grpc module has been deprecated for a couple of years, with @grpc/grpc-js as the recommended replacement. We have no plans to update the grpc module to fix this problem.