Electron-Utils

Useful utilities for developing Electron apps and modules

Register App Protocol

Why you need to use file protocol or local file path to locate your files? With the follow code, you can use app://views/welcome/index.html to locate file://path/to/app/views/welcome/index.html

In app.js

const utils = require('electron-utils')
utils.registerAppProtocol()

Window Creation and Management

const {windows} = require('electron-utils')
const options = {width: 600, height: 400}
windows.createOrActivate('welcome', 'app://views/welcome/index.html', options)
// some time later...
windows.activate('welcome')

IPC Between Browser Window and Main Process

The default ipc methods are too complex. We need just one line

// In main process
const {ipc, windows} = require('electron-utils')
ipc.registerIPCHandler('newwin', (url, name) => {
  windows.createOrActivate(name, url, {width: 640, height: 480})
})

// In renderer process (browser window)
const {ipc} = require('electron-utils')
ipc.handleIPCRequest('newwin', ['https://github.com/', 'github'])