使用child_process.fork启动电子应用

Question

Is it possible to start an electron application from a node.js app with child_process.fork()?

I would like to take advantage of the IPC messaging the fork provides, but I cannot figure out how to start electron with only the modulePath instead 'electron .'.

https://nodejs.org/api/child_process.html#child_process_child_process_fork_modulepath_args_options

Answer 1

I wound up using spawn instead and messaging with:

process.on('message', message => {
    console.log('message from parent: ', message);
  });

and

process.send('message to parent');