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Adam Chubbuck
Adam Chubbuck

Reputation: 1670

Associate file extension with Electron application

When a user double clicks on a file with an extension of cmf, I would like to automatically launch the Electron application that I've built. I've been searching around and I've seen several mentions of the electron-builder but no examples of how this can be used to create this association.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 173

Answers (1)

spring
spring

Reputation: 18487

You want to look at the protocol functionality. I don't have enough experience with it to understand the finer points: like which app takes precedence if multiple app register the same protocol. Some of that might be user-defined.

const { app, protocol } = require('electron')
const path = require('path')

app.on('ready', () => {
  protocol.registerFileProtocol('atom', (request, callback) => {
    const url = request.url.substr(7)
    callback({ path: path.normalize(`${__dirname}/${url}`) })
  }, (error) => {
    if (error) console.error('Failed to register protocol')
  })
})

Upvotes: 1

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