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Reputation: 13128

How to prevent Electron app from interrupting macOS system shutdown?

I have an Electron based app that runs in the macOS menu bar/the Windows tray area.

On Windows a system shutdown exits the app, but on macOS a system shutdown is interrupted due to the app not closing. How can I detect a shutdown event and close the app when the user has not explicitly requested the app to close?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1487

Answers (2)

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Reputation: 13128

Simple solution: 

import { app, powerMonitor } from 'electron';

powerMonitor.on('shutdown', () => {
  app.quit();
});

Upvotes: 2

DEDaniel
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Reputation: 231

Check the electron 'app' module documentation here.

You can listen to the following events like 'before-quit' and 'will-quit' in order to handle the state of your application. Mind the note that this events won't fire in a Windows environment.

And always be sure that your application handles the 'quit' event in your main process like this

app.on('quit', () => {
  app.quit();
});

Upvotes: 0

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