I was able to compile this on an M1 Macbook Pro, but only after updating package.json to reflect the latest Electron version. Node version v16.15.0 After updating Electron, it would compile, but only display an empty window.

In this gist, I record what fails https://gist.github.com/KnowledgeGarden/4fe40cbea486546b5544a7f8a7c90fd2

For the time being, I'm not sure where to go from here to make this a usable project; I have high hopes of doing so.

When I install, it tell me:

cartographist λ npm install
npm WARN old lockfile 
npm WARN old lockfile The package-lock.json file was created with an old version of npm,
npm WARN old lockfile so supplemental metadata must be fetched from the registry.
npm WARN old lockfile
npm WARN old lockfile This is a one-time fix-up, please be patient...
npm WARN old lockfile
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please update to ini >=1.3.6 to avoid a prototype pollution issue
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: See https://github.com/lydell/source-map-resolve#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Chokidar 2 does not receive security updates since 2019. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x fewer dependencies
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: See https://github.com/lydell/source-map-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Debug versions >=3.2.0 <3.2.7 || >=4 <4.3.1 have a low-severity ReDos regression when used in a Node.js environment. It is recommended you upgrade to 3.2.7 
or 4.3.1. (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/797)
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Debug versions >=3.2.0 <3.2.7 || >=4 <4.3.1 have a low-severity ReDos regression when used in a Node.js environment. It is recommended you upgrade to 3.2.7 
or 4.3.1. (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/797)
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Debug versions >=3.2.0 <3.2.7 || >=4 <4.3.1 have a low-severity ReDos regression when used in a Node.js environment. It is recommended you upgrade to 3.2.7 
or 4.3.1. (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/797)
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Debug versions >=3.2.0 <3.2.7 || >=4 <4.3.1 have a low-severity ReDos regression when used in a Node.js environment. It is recommended you upgrade to 3.2.7 
or 4.3.1. (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/797)
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: babel-eslint is now @babel/eslint-parser. This package will no longer receive updates.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: core-js@<3.23.3 is no longer maintained and not recommended for usage due to the number of issues. Because of the V8 engine whims, feature detection in old core-js versions could cause a slowdown up to 100x even if nothing is polyfilled. Some versions have web compatibility issues. Please, upgrade your dependencies to the actual version of core-js.
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path D:\ketarin\cartographist\node_modules\electron
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c node install.js
npm ERR! RequestError: unable to verify the first certificate
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (D:\ketarin\cartographist\node_modules\got\source\request-as-event-emitter.js:178:14)
npm ERR!     at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:642:26)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:539:35)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.origin.emit (D:\ketarin\cartographist\node_modules\@szmarczak\http-timer\source\index.js:37:11)
npm ERR!     at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:442:9)
npm ERR!     at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:527:28)
npm ERR!     at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:164:8)
npm ERR!     at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:129:3)
npm ERR!     at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\cache\_logs\2022-08-23T13_24_04_056Z-debug-0.log

cartographist λ npm audit fix --force
npm WARN using --force Recommended protections disabled.
npm WARN old lockfile 
npm WARN old lockfile The package-lock.json file was created with an old version of npm,
npm WARN old lockfile so supplemental metadata must be fetched from the registry.
npm WARN old lockfile
npm WARN old lockfile This is a one-time fix-up, please be patient...
npm WARN old lockfile
npm WARN audit Updating electron to 20.0.3,which is a SemVer major change.
npm WARN audit Updating immer to 9.0.15,which is a SemVer major change.
npm WARN audit Updating webpack to 5.74.0,which is a SemVer major change.
npm WARN ERESOLVE overriding peer dependency
npm WARN While resolving: [email protected]
npm WARN Found: [email protected]
npm WARN node_modules/webpack
npm WARN   peer webpack@">=2" from [email protected]
npm WARN   node_modules/babel-loader
npm WARN     babel-loader@"^8.1.0" from [email protected]
npm WARN     node_modules/electron-webpack-js
npm WARN   15 more (css-loader, electron-webpack, css-loader, file-loader, ...)
npm WARN
npm WARN Could not resolve dependency:
npm WARN peer webpack@"^4.42.1" from [email protected]
npm WARN node_modules/electron-webpack
npm WARN   dev electron-webpack@"^2.8.2" from the root project
npm WARN ERESOLVE overriding peer dependency
npm WARN ERESOLVE overriding peer dependency
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: See https://github.com/lydell/source-map-resolve#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Chokidar 2 does not receive security updates since 2019. Upgrade to chokidar 3 with 15x fewer dependencies
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: See https://github.com/lydell/source-map-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Debug versions >=3.2.0 <3.2.7 || >=4 <4.3.1 have a low-severity ReDos regression when used in a Node.js environment. It is recommended you upgrade to 3.2.7 
or 4.3.1. (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/797)
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Debug versions >=3.2.0 <3.2.7 || >=4 <4.3.1 have a low-severity ReDos regression when used in a Node.js environment. It is recommended you upgrade to 3.2.7 
or 4.3.1. (https://github.com/visionmedia/debug/issues/797)
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: The querystring API is considered Legacy. new code should use the URLSearchParams API instead.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: babel-eslint is now @babel/eslint-parser. This package will no longer receive updates.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please upgrade  to version 7 or higher.  Older versions may use Math.random() in certain circumstances, which is known to be problematic.  See https://v8.dev/blog/math-random for details.
npm ERR! code 1
npm ERR! path D:\ketarin\cartographist\node_modules\electron
npm ERR! command failed
npm ERR! command C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe /d /s /c node install.js
npm ERR! RequestError: unable to verify the first certificate
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.<anonymous> (D:\ketarin\cartographist\node_modules\got\source\request-as-event-emitter.js:178:14)
npm ERR!     at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:642:26)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.emit (node:events:539:35)
npm ERR!     at ClientRequest.origin.emit (D:\ketarin\cartographist\node_modules\@szmarczak\http-timer\source\index.js:37:11)
npm ERR!     at TLSSocket.socketErrorListener (node:_http_client:442:9)
npm ERR!     at TLSSocket.emit (node:events:527:28)
npm ERR!     at emitErrorNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:164:8)
npm ERR!     at emitErrorCloseNT (node:internal/streams/destroy:129:3)
npm ERR!     at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:83:21)

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\cache\_logs\2022-08-23T13_24_43_968Z-debug-0.log

When I start, it say:

cartographist λ npm start

> [email protected] start
> electron-webpack dev

Error: Cannot find module '@babel/preset-react'
Require stack:
- C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\configurators\js.js
- C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\targets\BaseTarget.js
- C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\targets\MainTarget.js
- C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\main.js
- C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\dev\WebpackDevServerManager.js
- C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\dev\dev-runner.js
- C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\cli.js
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:933:15)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:999:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
    at addBabelItem (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\configurators\js.ts:44:20)
    at createBabelLoader (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\configurators\js.ts:24:3)
    at MainTarget.configureRules (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\targets\BaseTarget.ts:15:25)
    at MainTarget.configureRules (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\targets\MainTarget.ts:13:11)
    at WebpackConfigurator.configure (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\main.ts:213:12)
    at configure (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\main.ts:376:10) {
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',
  requireStack: [
    'C:\\Users\\scillidan\\scoop\\persist\\nodejs\\bin\\node_modules\\electron-webpack\\out\\configurators\\js.js',
    'C:\\Users\\scillidan\\scoop\\persist\\nodejs\\bin\\node_modules\\electron-webpack\\out\\targets\\BaseTarget.js',
    'C:\\Users\\scillidan\\scoop\\persist\\nodejs\\bin\\node_modules\\electron-webpack\\out\\targets\\MainTarget.js',
    'C:\\Users\\scillidan\\scoop\\persist\\nodejs\\bin\\node_modules\\electron-webpack\\out\\main.js',
    'C:\\Users\\scillidan\\scoop\\persist\\nodejs\\bin\\node_modules\\electron-webpack\\out\\dev\\WebpackDevServerManager.js',
    'C:\\Users\\scillidan\\scoop\\persist\\nodejs\\bin\\node_modules\\electron-webpack\\out\\dev\\dev-runner.js',
    'C:\\Users\\scillidan\\scoop\\persist\\nodejs\\bin\\node_modules\\electron-webpack\\out\\cli.js'
  ]
}
┏ Renderer -------------------

  Error: Cannot find module '@babel/preset-react'
  Require stack:
  - C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\configurators\js.js
  - C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\targets\BaseTarget.js
  - C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\targets\RendererTarget.js
  - C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\out\main.js
  - C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\webpack.renderer.config.js
  - C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\node_modules\webpack-cli\bin\utils\convert-argv.js
  - C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\node_modules\webpack-dev-server\bin\webpack-dev-server.js
      at Function.Module._resolveFilename (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:933:15)
      at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:778:27)
      at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:999:19)
      at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:102:18)
      at addBabelItem (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\configurators\js.ts:44:20)
      at createBabelLoader (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\configurators\js.ts:24:3)
      at RendererTarget.configureRules (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\targets\BaseTarget.ts:15:25)
      at RendererTarget.configureRules (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\targets\RendererTarget.ts:20:11)
      at WebpackConfigurator.configure (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\main.ts:213:12)
      at configure (C:\Users\scillidan\scoop\persist\nodejs\bin\node_modules\electron-webpack\src\main.ts:376:10)

┗ ----------------------------
Renderer WDS exited with code 1

I try npm install --save-dev @babel/preset-react, and seems no effect.

Anywhere, It is an interesting tool, which may be able to have a wonderful use. Hope you can have more easy time but not laziness, maybe 🤪