Delegate showing help to the back end process.

packages/core/package.json

@@ -152,6 +152,9 @@
       "frontend": "lib/browser/window/browser-window-module",
       "frontendElectron": "lib/electron-browser/window/electron-window-module"
     },
+    {
+      "backendElectron": "lib/electron-node/cli/electron-backend-cli-module"
+    },
     {
       "frontend": "lib/browser/keyboard/browser-keyboard-module",
       "frontendElectron": "lib/electron-browser/keyboard/electron-keyboard-module",

packages/core/src/electron-main/electron-main-application.ts

@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ export class ElectronMainApplication {
     async start(config: FrontendApplicationConfig): Promise<void> {
         const argv = this.processArgv.getProcessArgvWithoutBin(process.argv);
         createYargs(argv, process.cwd())
+            .help(false)
             .command('$0 [file]', false,
                 cmd => cmd
                     .option('electronUserData', {

packages/core/src/electron-node/cli/electron-backend-cli-module.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+// *****************************************************************************
+// Copyright (C) 2024 STMicroelectronics and others.
+//
+// This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+// terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+// http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+//
+// This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+// Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
+// Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
+// with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at
+// https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+// *****************************************************************************
+
+import { ContainerModule } from 'inversify';
+import { ElectronCliContribution } from './electron-cli-contribution';
+import { CliContribution } from '../../node';
+
+export default new ContainerModule(bind => {
+    bind(ElectronCliContribution).toSelf().inSingletonScope();
+    bind(CliContribution).toService(ElectronCliContribution);
+});

packages/core/src/electron-node/cli/electron-cli-contribution.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/********************************************************************************
+ * Copyright (C) 2024 STMicroelectronics and others.
+ *
+ * This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+ * terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+ * http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+ *
+ * This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+ * Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
+ * Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
+ * with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at
+ * https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+ ********************************************************************************/
+
+import { injectable } from 'inversify';
+import { Argv, Arguments } from 'yargs';
+import { CliContribution } from '../../node';
+import { MaybePromise } from '../../common';
+
+@injectable()
+export class ElectronCliContribution implements CliContribution {
+
+    configure(conf: Argv): void {
+        conf.option('electronUserData', {
+            type: 'string',
+            describe: 'The area where the electron main process puts its data'
+        });
+    }
+
+    setArguments(args: Arguments): MaybePromise<void> {
+    }
+
+}

packages/core/src/node/cli.ts

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ export class CliManager {
     async initializeCli<T>(argv: string[], postSetArguments: () => Promise<void>, defaultCommand: () => Promise<void>): Promise<void> {
         const pack = require('../../package.json');
         const version = pack.version;
-        const command = yargs.version(version);
+        const command = yargs(argv, process.cwd()).version(version);
         command.exitProcess(this.isExit());
         for (const contrib of this.contributionsProvider.getContributions()) {
             contrib.configure(command);
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ export class CliManager {
                 await postSetArguments();
             })
             .command('$0', false, () => { }, defaultCommand)
-            .parse(argv);
+            .parse();
     }
 
     protected isExit(): boolean {