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Bipin Maharjan
Bipin Maharjan

Reputation: 523

Electron: Can i send http request from renderer to main process in electron?

I am working on an electron video player project and to stream video from a readable stream to HTML video-tag, I want to know is there any solution to send the HTTP request from the renderer process to main process and handle the request in main process.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 3056

Answers (1)

Mihail Feraru
Mihail Feraru

Reputation: 1469

You could use the ipcMain and ipcRenderer APIs of Electron. You can find the full documentation here https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-main

You will have a listener on the main process and a message will be sent from the renderer process after completing the HTTP request:

// main process
const { ipcMain } = require('electron');
ipcMain.on('request-done', (event, content) => {
    // process the response, it is in 'content' argument
});

// renderer process
const { ipcRenderer } = require('electron');

await reponse = fetch(...);
await ipcRenderer.send('request-done', reponse);

Upvotes: 2

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