Electron

In this series of Tips & Tricks, I will share some experiences developing Desktop Application using Electron. …

In Electron applications, you can use the ipcRenderer and ipcMain modules for inter-process communication. The official documentation provides a version in JavaScript. Below are the steps to implement it in TypeScript, along with the problems encountered during the process. Listen for messages in the main process Use ipcMain in the main process to set up IPC listeners: …

A common mistake made by most startups is trying to make a full-fledged browser based on the electron. There are many reasons why you should not use electron to develop browsers: — There are real security and privacy issues when many of electron based packages also run lots of custom…

I just spent several hours sorting this out. Judging by some of the threads I saw on Stack Overflow, I’m not the only person having this problem. …

When developing an Electron app, you will often want to run expensive or long-running operations in a different process. In the past, this might have been done using thechild_process module. But, Electron has recently introduced a newutilityProcess that uses the Chromium Services API. …