--- title: "How I Debug Electron Apps for Windows on my MacBook" url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-debug-electron-apps-for-windows-on-my-macbook-gr0su0pae source_url: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsz7bKnoXvs type: video:youtube source: "Web Dev Cody" published: 2026-05-16T16:34:10.989Z updated: 2026-05-16T16:34:26.418Z tags: ["aws", "infrastructure", "electron"] reading_time: 3 upvotes: 0 comments: 0 language: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I Debug Electron Apps for Windows on my MacBook **[Web Dev Cody](https://daily.dev/sources/webdevcody)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A developer shares how they debug Windows-specific issues in their Electron app (Mission Control) without owning a Windows machine. The approach involves spinning up a Windows Server 2025 EC2 instance on AWS, connecting via RDP using the Windows app, installing the necessary dev tools (Visual Studio, Node, PNPM), and running the app locally to inspect logs. The root cause of the bug was OS-specific path differences for Claude Code installations. The post also briefly promotes Mission Control, an agentic coding tool the author is building. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#aws](https://daily.dev/tags/aws), [#infrastructure](https://daily.dev/tags/infrastructure), [#electron](https://daily.dev/tags/electron) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-debug-electron-apps-for-windows-on-my-macbook-gr0su0pae)