Electron ipc using remote website?

Question

I'm creating a electron BrowserWindow using a remote url, so I can't really use the var ipc = require('ipc'); syntax to include ipc. It is possible to send messages from a remote url to the electron main-process? If so where can I get the javascript source for it?

Or maybe there is a better way to pass info to electron main-process? Just need to send the logged in user info.

Answer 1

This question has been asked quite sometime back, but I think this could still be useful. The way you can inject Javascript into the browser window is using the preload lag, in the web preferences, add the options:

const window = new BrowserWindow({
                    webPreferences:{
                     preload: <path_to>/preload.js
                    }
                   })

// preload.js

const ipcRenderer = require('electron').ipcRenderer;
window.ipcRenderer = ipcRenderer

In the webpage of you the external url you are loading you can directly use window.ipcRenderer.