electron-async-ipc

✨ Asynchronous electron ipc invocation mechanism .

🌿 Installation

Install with npm:

npm i electron-async-ipc --save

🌿 Usage

📍 It must be imported in the main process's entry file .

（ Otherwise, rendering processes cannot communicate with each other . ）

import 'electron-async-ipc/main'

Main process

import MainIPC from 'electron-async-ipc/main'
// ... other code ...

Renderer process

If a bundler is used, you can just import the module:

import RendererIPC from 'electron-async-ipc/renderer'
// ... other code ...

🌿 Example

🌵 1. MainA ↔ MainB

The main process can send a message to the main process and receive a callback as shown in the following example :

// MainA:
const res = await MainIPC.invokeMain(`${channel}`, ...args)

// MainB: (two choices) 
MainIPC.handleMain(`${channel}`, async (...args) => { return res })
MainIPC.handleMainOnce(`${channel}`, async (...args) => { return res })

🌵 2. Main ↔ Renderer

The main process can send a message to the rendering process and receive a callback as shown in the following example :

/* MainA: (two choices) */
const res = await MainIPC.invokeRenderer(`${webContents}`, `${channel}`, ...args)
const res = await MainIPC.invokeAllRenderer(`${channel}`, ...args)

/* RendererB: (two choices) */
RendererIPC.handleMain(`${channel}`, async (...args) => { return res })
RendererIPC.handleMainOnce(`${channel}`, async (...args) => { return res })

🌱 3. RendererA ↔ RendererB

The rendering process can send a message to the rendering process and receive a callback as shown in the following example :

// RendererA:
const res = await RendererIPC.invokeRenderer(`${channel}`, ...args)

// RendererB: (two choices)
RendererIPC.handleRenderer(`${channel}`, async (...args) => { return res })
RendererIPC.handleRendererOnce(`${channel}`, async (...args) => { return res })

🌱 4. Renderer ↔ Main

The rendering process can send a message to the main process and receive a callback as shown in the following example :

// RendererA:
const res = await RendererIPC.invokeMain(`${channel}`, ...args)

// MainB:
MainIPC.handleRenderer(`${channel}`, async (...args) => { return res })

The example is the once case ( * handleRendererOnce must be used with invokeMainOnce ) :

// RendererA:
const res = await RendererIPC.invokeMainOnce(`${channel}`, ...args)

// MainB:
MainIPC.handleRendererOnce(`${channel}`, async (...args) => { return res })