Pack Electron in existing App

i'm kinda new to electron and tried a few things with it. I'm currently working on a bigger project with a lot of existing code, where we want to integrate electron to our application. I made a extension for our app which is directly loaded and used require('electron') to get the things started. I cannot get electron to work because i'm running this from node. I have experimented with the electron-quick-start and when i run electron-quick-start with electron . it works without problems, but i cannot run it with node main.js.

Is there a way to pack electron in an existing app or is the only way to use electron to wrap the application into electron?

via Johannes Pinger