url 方案：根据要求打开 Windows 应用程序 [Electron]

Question

i have a php website and i have an electron based desktop application i want to be able to open this application which i made it when the client hit the button on my website, how can i do that?

for example, let's say i have a chatting website and a chatting application and the user likes to use the app instead of the website so after he installs my app on his windows machine and then go to the website to click the button i want the app to open it self! how can i achieve that please ?

Answer 1

Electron 专门为此提供了app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient API。

Answer 2

What you are attempting is really hard. Most browsers operate inside a sandbox, meaning that the website code (javascript) cannot do anything outside the browser. You would have to build something like a browser extension to make it work.