Index: src/index.ts
IDEA additional info:
Subsystem: com.intellij.openapi.diff.impl.patch.CharsetEP
<+>UTF-8
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diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
--- a/src/index.ts	(revision 34a92a6909d715ac95609eb4047e9b94a2de8152)
+++ b/src/index.ts	(revision 33ae1fd1580e7ac890c400d7514953a07c3c7eca)
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
 import {copy, mkdirpSync, remove} from 'fs-extra';
 import i18n from 'i18next';
 import cloneDeep from 'lodash.clonedeep';
-import {resolve} from 'path';
+import {dirname,resolve} from 'path';
 import {getPortPromise} from 'portfinder';
 import {createInterface} from 'readline';
 
@@ -85,12 +85,18 @@
 			: resolve(app.getAppPath(), '../../');
 		resourcePath = process.resourcesPath;
 	} else {
-		// Starting Electron from source folder
-		appPath = app.getAppPath();
-		resourcePath = appPath;
+		if (app.getAppPath().endsWith('.asar')) {
+			// Starting Electron from an asar directly (electron /path/to/app.asar)
+			appPath = dirname(app.getAppPath());
+			resourcePath = appPath;
+		} else {
+			// Starting Electron from source folder
+			appPath = app.getAppPath();
+			resourcePath = appPath;
+		}
 	}
 } else {
-	// No Electron start, so in git mode
+	// Non-electron environments (ts-node, node)
 	appPath = process.cwd();
 	resourcePath = appPath;
 }