Electron Projects

Sending documents to the main (Node.js) process

In this section, we're going to send the document to the main process. Follow these steps to do so:

1. Import ipcMain into the menu.js file, as shown in the following code:

const { Menu, BrowserWindow, dialog, ipcMain } = require('electron');

Now, we need to implement the saveFile function. You may have done this already in Chapter 2, Building a Markdown Editor.

2. Add the following code either at the beginning or at the bottom of the menu.js file:

function saveFile(contents) {  const window = BrowserWindow.getFocusedWindow();  const options = {    title: 'Save markdown file',    filters: [      { name: 'MyFile', extensions: ['md'] }    ]  };  dialog.showSaveDialog(window, options, filename => { if (filename) { ...