diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 2381ff83b1..53701a44d2 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ node_modules/
 yarn-error.log
 coverage/
 tmp/
-static/build/client/
+static/build/**
 binaries/client/
 binaries/server/
 locales/**/**.js
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 0a9afc60d1..6f395eea3c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
   "productName": "Lens",
   "description": "Lens - The Kubernetes IDE",
   "version": "3.6.0-dev",
-  "main": "out/main.js",
+  "main": "static/build/main.js",
   "copyright": "© 2020, Lakend Labs, Inc.",
   "license": "MIT",
   "author": {
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
   },
   "scripts": {
     "dev": "concurrently -k \"yarn dev-run -C\" \"yarn dev:main\" \"yarn dev:renderer\"",
-    "dev-run": "nodemon --watch out/main.* --exec \"electron --inspect .\" $@",
+    "dev-run": "nodemon --watch static/build/main.js --exec \"electron --inspect .\" $@",
     "dev:main": "env DEBUG=true yarn compile:main --watch $@",
     "dev:renderer": "env DEBUG=true yarn compile:renderer --watch $@",
     "compile": "env NODE_ENV=production concurrently yarn:compile:*",
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
       {
         "from": "static/",
         "to": "static/",
-        "filter": "**/*"
+        "filter": "!**/main.js"
       },
       "LICENSE"
     ],
diff --git a/src/common/vars.ts b/src/common/vars.ts
index d7e18e3467..8dc9831898 100644
--- a/src/common/vars.ts
+++ b/src/common/vars.ts
@@ -10,16 +10,27 @@ export const isDevelopment = isDebugging || !isProduction;
 export const isTestEnv = !!process.env.JEST_WORKER_ID;
 
 export const appName = `${packageInfo.productName}${isDevelopment ? "Dev" : ""}`
+export const publicPath = "/build/"
 
-// System paths
+// Webpack build paths
 export const contextDir = process.cwd();
-export const staticDir = path.join(contextDir, "static");
-export const outDir = path.join(contextDir, "out");
+export const buildDir = path.join(contextDir, "static", publicPath);
 export const mainDir = path.join(contextDir, "src/main");
 export const rendererDir = path.join(contextDir, "src/renderer");
 export const htmlTemplate = path.resolve(rendererDir, "template.html");
 export const sassCommonVars = path.resolve(rendererDir, "components/vars.scss");
 
+// Special runtime paths
+const globScope = typeof global !== "undefined" ? global : window;
+Object.defineProperty(globScope, "__static", {
+  get() {
+    if (isDevelopment) {
+      return path.resolve(contextDir, "static");
+    }
+    return path.resolve(process.resourcesPath, "static")
+  }
+})
+
 // Apis
 export const apiPrefix = "/api" // local router apis
 export const apiKubePrefix = "/api-kube" // k8s cluster apis
diff --git a/src/main/index.ts b/src/main/index.ts
index 0c5558ec33..12fbb2bc76 100644
--- a/src/main/index.ts
+++ b/src/main/index.ts
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 import "../common/system-ca"
 import "../common/prometheus-providers"
 import { app, dialog } from "electron"
-import { appName, staticDir } from "../common/vars";
+import { appName } from "../common/vars";
 import path from "path"
 import { LensProxy } from "./lens-proxy"
 import { WindowManager } from "./window-manager";
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ import { workspaceStore } from "../common/workspace-store";
 import { tracker } from "../common/tracker";
 import logger from "./logger"
 
+const workingDir = path.join(app.getPath("appData"), appName);
+app.setName(appName);
+app.setPath("userData", workingDir);
+
 let windowManager: WindowManager;
 let clusterManager: ClusterManager;
 let proxyServer: LensProxy;
@@ -30,17 +34,13 @@ if (app.commandLine.getSwitchValue("proxy-server") !== "") {
 
 async function main() {
   await shellSync();
-
-  const workingDir = path.join(app.getPath("appData"), appName);
-  app.setName(appName);
-  app.setPath("userData", workingDir);
   logger.info(`🚀 Starting Lens from "${workingDir}"`)
 
   tracker.event("app", "start");
   const updater = new AppUpdater()
   updater.start();
 
-  registerFileProtocol("static", staticDir);
+  registerFileProtocol("static", __static);
 
   // find free port
   let proxyPort: number
diff --git a/src/main/router.ts b/src/main/router.ts
index 1b50ec2c2e..976d7cac9c 100644
--- a/src/main/router.ts
+++ b/src/main/router.ts
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import http from "http"
 import path from "path"
 import { readFile } from "fs-extra"
 import { Cluster } from "./cluster"
-import { apiPrefix, appName, outDir } from "../common/vars";
+import { apiPrefix, appName, publicPath } from "../common/vars";
 import { helmRoute, kubeconfigRoute, metricsRoute, portForwardRoute, resourceApplierRoute, watchRoute } from "./routes";
 
 export interface RouterRequestOpts {
@@ -95,14 +95,14 @@ export class Router {
   }
 
   async handleStaticFile(filePath: string, res: http.ServerResponse) {
-    const asset = path.join(outDir, filePath);
+    const asset = path.join(__static, filePath);
     try {
       const data = await readFile(asset);
       res.setHeader("Content-Type", this.getMimeType(asset));
       res.write(data)
       res.end()
     } catch (err) {
-      this.handleStaticFile(`${appName}.html`, res);
+      this.handleStaticFile(`${publicPath}/${appName}.html`, res);
     }
   }
 
diff --git a/src/main/window-manager.ts b/src/main/window-manager.ts
index af1437c38d..7051db1055 100644
--- a/src/main/window-manager.ts
+++ b/src/main/window-manager.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import type { ClusterId } from "../common/cluster-store";
-import { BrowserWindow, ipcMain, shell, WebContents, webContents } from "electron"
+import { BrowserWindow, dialog, ipcMain, shell, WebContents, webContents } from "electron"
 import windowStateKeeper from "electron-window-state"
 import { observable } from "mobx";
 import { initMenu } from "./menu";
@@ -69,10 +69,14 @@ export class WindowManager {
   }
 
   async showMain() {
-    await this.showSplash();
-    await this.mainView.loadURL(`http://localhost:${this.proxyPort}`)
-    this.mainView.show();
-    this.splashWindow.hide();
+    try {
+      await this.showSplash();
+      await this.mainView.loadURL(`http://localhost:${this.proxyPort}`)
+      this.mainView.show();
+      this.splashWindow.hide();
+    } catch (err) {
+      dialog.showErrorBox("ERROR!", err.toString())
+    }
   }
 
   async showSplash() {
diff --git a/src/renderer/components/+whats-new/whats-new.tsx b/src/renderer/components/+whats-new/whats-new.tsx
index 9bde7da141..c63e8f25d1 100644
--- a/src/renderer/components/+whats-new/whats-new.tsx
+++ b/src/renderer/components/+whats-new/whats-new.tsx
@@ -7,12 +7,11 @@ import { userStore } from "../../../common/user-store"
 import { navigate } from "../../navigation";
 import { Button } from "../button";
 import { Trans } from "@lingui/macro";
-import { staticDir } from "../../../common/vars";
 import marked from "marked"
 
 @observer
 export class WhatsNew extends React.Component {
-  releaseNotes = fs.readFileSync(path.join(staticDir, "RELEASE_NOTES.md")).toString();
+  releaseNotes = fs.readFileSync(path.join(__static, "RELEASE_NOTES.md")).toString();
 
   ok = () => {
     navigate("/");
diff --git a/types/mocks.d.ts b/types/mocks.d.ts
index 4f88781e0b..7ddd25267b 100644
--- a/types/mocks.d.ts
+++ b/types/mocks.d.ts
@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ declare module "win-ca"
 declare module "@hapi/call"
 declare module "@hapi/subtext"
 
+// Global path to static assets
+declare const __static: string;
+
 // Support import for custom module extensions
 // https://www.typescriptlang.org/docs/handbook/modules.html#wildcard-module-declarations
 declare module "*.scss" {
diff --git a/webpack.dll.ts b/webpack.dll.ts
index cf13919e0c..000ba0af21 100755
--- a/webpack.dll.ts
+++ b/webpack.dll.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 import path from "path";
 import webpack, { LibraryTarget } from "webpack";
-import { isDevelopment, outDir } from "./src/common/vars";
+import { isDevelopment, buildDir } from "./src/common/vars";
 
 export const library = "dll"
 export const libraryTarget: LibraryTarget = "commonjs2"
-export const manifestPath = path.resolve(outDir, `${library}.manifest.json`);
+export const manifestPath = path.resolve(buildDir, `${library}.manifest.json`);
 
 export const packages = [
   "react", "react-dom",
diff --git a/webpack.main.ts b/webpack.main.ts
index bb486d47af..06c52f47dd 100755
--- a/webpack.main.ts
+++ b/webpack.main.ts
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 import path from "path";
 import webpack from "webpack";
 import ForkTsCheckerPlugin from "fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin"
-import { isDevelopment, isProduction, mainDir, outDir } from "./src/common/vars";
+import { isDevelopment, isProduction, mainDir, buildDir } from "./src/common/vars";
 import nodeExternals from "webpack-node-externals";
 
 export default function (): webpack.Configuration {
-  console.info('WEBPACK:main', require("./src/common/vars"), process.env)
+  console.info('WEBPACK:main', require("./src/common/vars"))
   return {
     context: __dirname,
     target: "electron-main",
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ export default function (): webpack.Configuration {
       main: path.resolve(mainDir, "index.ts"),
     },
     output: {
-      path: outDir,
+      path: buildDir,
     },
     resolve: {
       extensions: ['.json', '.js', '.ts']
diff --git a/webpack.renderer.ts b/webpack.renderer.ts
index de95fbe09a..bda40a47c8 100755
--- a/webpack.renderer.ts
+++ b/webpack.renderer.ts
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { appName, htmlTemplate, isDevelopment, isProduction, outDir, rendererDir, sassCommonVars } from "./src/common/vars";
+import { appName, htmlTemplate, isDevelopment, isProduction, buildDir, rendererDir, sassCommonVars, publicPath } from "./src/common/vars";
 import path from "path";
 import webpack from "webpack";
 import HtmlWebpackPlugin from "html-webpack-plugin";
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ import TerserPlugin from "terser-webpack-plugin";
 import ForkTsCheckerPlugin from "fork-ts-checker-webpack-plugin"
 
 export default function (): webpack.Configuration {
-  console.info('WEBPACK:renderer', require("./src/common/vars"), process.env)
+  console.info('WEBPACK:renderer', require("./src/common/vars"))
   return {
     context: __dirname,
     target: "electron-renderer",
@@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ export default function (): webpack.Configuration {
       [appName]: path.resolve(rendererDir, "bootstrap.tsx"),
     },
     output: {
-      publicPath: "/",
-      path: outDir,
+      publicPath: publicPath,
+      path: buildDir,
       filename: '[name].js',
       chunkFilename: 'chunks/[name].js',
     },