electron-process
v0.2.0
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Send blocking operations to a background process in electron
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electron-process
Send blocking operations to a background process. Example application available here.
Installation
npm install --save electron-process
Usage
electron-process
uses a hidden BrowserWindow
to do all the blocking operations that your heart desires. Create the background process in the main electron process, register modules you wish to run in the background, then call those functions within the BrowserWindow
s that you consider the foreground.
Main
const main = require('electron-process').main;
app.on('ready', function() {
const backgroundURL = 'file://' + __dirname + '/background.html';
const backgroundProcessHandler = main.createBackgroundProcess(backgroundURL, true);
mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({width: 1280, height: 600});
backgroundProcessHandler.addWindow(mainWindow);
mainWindow.loadURL('file://' + __dirname + '/foreground.html');
});
Foreground
const foreground = require('electron-process').foreground;
const someModule = foreground.getModule(require('./someModule'));
someModule.doStuff()
.then((result) => console.log(result));
Background
const background = require('electron-process').background;
background.registerModule(require('./someModule'));