i’m learning electron’s docments by myself. in this example https://fiddle.electronjs.org/launch?target=electron/v26.1.0/docs/fiddles/tutorial-preload https://github.com/electron/electron/tree/v26.1.0/docs/fiddles/tutorial-preload i tried to add an optional chaining operator in renderer.js like this const information = document.getElementById(‘info’) information.innerText = `This app is using Chrome (v${window.versions.chrome()}), Node.js (v${window.versions.node()}), and Electron (v${window.versions.electron()})` to const information = document.getElementById(‘info’) information?.innerText = `This app is using Chrome (v${window.versions.chrome()}), Node.js (v${window.versions.node()}),… Read More why optional chaining operator cannot work in electron's tutorial-preload

I’m new to React js and i’m trying to integrate a modal window in my electron software. I tried the following link example: https://medium.com/tinyso/how-to-create-a-modal-component-in-react-from-basic-to-advanced-a3357a2a716a and it worked at first except that when I clicked on the box, the modal window was displayed underneath the whole page when it should be displayed on top. I had… Read More Modal window that does not appear after the click

I am encrypting an array of files and using node streams to encrypt a file in chunk. I want to run a function after the encryption is done of all the files in the array but my function runs before the encryption has completed. I am using preload.js to expose the encryption function. //encrypt.js const… Read More How to run a function after map in Electron

Been working on a Electron and React app for the past 4 months and we are getting close to releasing it. This is my first production Electron app and I noticed the unpacked size was very large and the app.asar contained over 100mb of node_modules. My colleague wrote the electron-builder config (probably just boilerplate code… Read More Does Production Electron need node_modules/

I’m working on an Electron app connected to a backend on AWS that handles the verification and creation of the user. If it matters I’m building the app with React. Basically the backend flow is: Navigates to backend.com/oauth/login Backend prepares OAuth config, redirects to the Discord.com authentication url User authenticates, redirects to backend.com/oauth/callback with the… Read More OAuth login in separate window/browser with Electron

My parent process forks the child as so: child = new fork(‘child.js’); Now in my parent process, I have a variable that contains an array. I want to pass this array to the child process so I have tried to send the variable as a message to the child: //in parent.js var jData = [‘pro1’,… Read More How do I pass a variable from parent to forked child process?