November 2017
Beginner
274 pages
6h 17m
English
© Chris Griffith, Leif Wells 2017
Chris Griffith and Leif Wells, Electron: From Beginner to Pro, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2826-5_6
Chris Griffith1 and Leif Wells2
(1)San Diego, California, USA
(2)Atlanta, Georgia, USA
We briefly saw the use of the inter-process communication (IPC) module as one solution for having contextual menus in our application. In this chapter, we are going to explore this module in greater depth. Now, this is not the most glamorous part of API, but it is certainly the workhorse that much of our real-world applications will rely upon.
Since Electron applications are broken into two separate processes (main and render), we need a system to communicate between them. That ...
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