Electron Projects

Sending confirmation messages to the main process

You can also send messages back to the main process with the send function:

ipcRenderer.send('<channel-name>', arg);

As an exercise, let's send a confirmation back to the main process. Electron provides convenient access to the sender of the message via the event argument. This allows us to have generic message handlers wired with multiple channels.

The Node.js part of the application is going to listen to the editor-reply channel to receive feedback from the web page.

1. Update the code of the index.html page to reflect the following example:

<script>  const { ipcRenderer } = require('electron');        ipcRenderer.on('editor-event', (event, arg) => {    console.log(arg); // send message back to main ...