Electron + angularjs IPC 机制

Question

I am trying to use AngularJs inside Electron. What i'm confused about is, the electron docs here suggest on using something like:

// In renderer process (web page).
const ipcRenderer = require('electron').ipcRenderer;
console.log(ipcRenderer.sendSync('synchronous-message', 'ping')); // prints "pong"

ipcRenderer.on('asynchronous-reply', function(event, arg) {
    console.log(arg); // prints "pong"
});
ipcRenderer.send('asynchronous-message', 'ping');

But since Angular is running inside the browser(webkit) I cannot essentially use require to get the ipcRenderer.

How would one overcome with this problem.

Answer 1

You can use require in electron - it extends the webkit API with this functionality. Basically the whole NPM is at your disposal. Well, some thing will not work, obviously, but require will.

Answer 2

It should work, but you need to add nodeIntegration

mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
        width: 1024,
        height: 632,
        webPreferences: {
            nodeIntegration: true
        }
    })

in the BrowserWindow constructor