How to use socket.io-client in an electron?

Question

I am trying to add socket.io-client to my project.

I installed socket.io-clientand@types/socket.io-client

but I get this error when I try to build:

/myproject/node_modules/webpack-target-electron-renderer/node_modules/webpack/lib/ExternalModuleFactoryPlugin.js:37
TypeError: Cannot read property 'request' of undefined