Can you use absolute paths in Electron?

Question

Simple question here that I can't seem to find a straight answer for.

Is there any way to use absolute paths for dependencies (e.g. <script src="/my-script.js"></script>) with electron and have it work?

Currently it just does mainWindow.loadURL('file://' + __dirname + '/index.html');

Which loads index.html just fine, but here's the thing, index.html loads

Which fails because it looks in the root of the entire hard drive

This would make my life quite a bit easier, as otherwise i'd have to refactor a bunch of template URLs, and doing some would forever break my app if I ever wanted to add pages in a subdirectory on the website (e.g. http://website.com/m/).

Any suggestions? Thanks!

Answer 1

You can override built-in URI to file-path resolution using protocol.interceptFileProcotol(), your handler can then map /my-script.js to whatever path you want.