Inter process communication between Electron app and Win32 native desktop app

Question

I am trying to implement inter process communication between a desktop native app and an electron app on Windows for assignement(Operating systems). I am new to this area and not able to find relevant links. The options I have considered are: 1. TCP 2. HTTP server 3. COM 4. Namedpipes

NamedPipes seem correct, as electron implements its IPC using named pipes. There is a net module available which implements sockets that seem to be similar. And I can write the server in the native app.

Does this sound correct to you guys? Any better alternatives? Any suggestions which will help me learn will be useful.

Answer 1

Check out the library node-ipc https://github.com/RIAEvangelist/node-ipc which has a range of ways by which you can communicate between node (which is what basically electron is) and other system level processes.