This repository contains sample code for the following areas:
BrowserWindow
and how to show and destroy it from the MainProcess
.RendererProcess
and MainProcess
in Electron app.IPCRenderer
and IPCMain
objects.Sqlite3
using Knex
library.Knex
library.The shortcut for showing dev tools on windows in Electron is Command
+ Alt
+ I
on MacOS.
When sending data between RenderProcess
and MainProcess
, there are two important code pieces:
IPCMain
and IPCRenderer
BrowserWindow.webContents.send()
WebContents
contains events, etc. for a window. IPC
means inter-process communication. The idea here is events. You can fire an event by using send()
method along with data to pass, and the subscribers listening to it get the data passed.
Also, when I was working with Sqlite3
, I got errors with it not being found. Therefore, I had to install electron-rebuild
dev-dependency and rebuilt the electron
with it by calling npm run rebuild
. package.json
has the setting for the rebuild command.