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corysimmons
corysimmons

Reputation: 7675

Can Electron affect other OS apps?

I'm thinking of making a text expanding app with Electron. Is it even possible to make an Electron app that can do that? For instance, if the Electron app is open and I enter an abbreviation into Sublime Text and hit tab will it expand?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 128

Answers (1)

Max
Max

Reputation: 4636

Electron allows you to make apps that run node scripts and display UI in a webkit based view.

The purpose of Electron is to provide native OS interactions to node and package everything in a distributable app. It does a fairly decent job covering basic OS interaction, however it is by no means a full API wrapper.

In short, no Electron itself will not do this. I doubt it is worth the time writing a node module for this purpose, you would be far better off writing a native app for whatever platform you are targeting.

Upvotes: 2

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