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I am working on an Electron app that interacts with its backend via an API secured with mTLS. But at our project we don't have a CA. A privkey/certificate pair was generated once and now every client ...
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I need a quick suggestion from you guys, I am currently working on a react + electron desktop application. In that i need to automate messages from that app to whatsapp. Is there any suggestions. I ...
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I am building a desktop application using Electron.js with a React frontend and a Go (Fiber) backend. During development (npm run dev), everything works perfectly. However, I am facing an issue when ...
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Most examples for how to write the contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld message handling in Electron's preload.js script list one specific function name for each message, e.g. openFile. I find it more ...
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The code example below for a main.js Electron file successfully changes the item label of the one item in menu Menu upon item click, but not its checked status when run in Electron Fiddle. As can be ...
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I have a problem with Electron start in my VS Code. By following installation guide I install the electron but have a problem with first start. When I trying to run npm run dev:electron I've got that ...
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I use electron to convert my python-flask web application into a Desktop application. As installer, I use NSIS electron builder with a custom nsis script for the customer details page. The issue is ...
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I'm new to Electron, I'm learning how IPC works. Let me show you my code: preload.js import { contextBridge, ipcRenderer } from 'electron' contextBridge.exposeInMainWorld('myApi', { performAction(...
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When I working on a project that requires multiple windows, I use the BrowserWindow() method of Electron for doing this. My code of making the windows: const { app, BrowserWindow, screen, ipcMain} = ...
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I am building a desktop application using: Electron ^28.0.0 electron-builder ^24.9.0 Prisma ^5.8.0 Vue 3 + TypeScript During development (electron .) everything works correctly. However, after ...
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I would like to create an npm library for a base electron client where consumer projects use the same shared main process/renderer/preload. And currently exposing a defineConfigs function that ...
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I'm using the koffi library to call Win32 APIs from TypeScript. However, I'm stuck at the very first step: FindWindowW consistently returns 0 (NULL), indicating that the Progman window cannot be found....
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I am working on an Electron project with node-api (for C++ addons). The app crashes, even after a full-build. The problem that I am facing occurs within the C++ template addon that I have made. I have ...
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I've been trying to reimplement electron-click-drag-plugin for the needs of my Electron app. But I hit a hard wall when implementing it for X11. I've successfully sent the EWMH event, but it doesn't ...
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im a fresher Bscit student creating an managment tool application , for a company using antigravity, in halfway through the application but when i was looking for deployement , noticed electron in ...
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I am trying to build a simple terminal emulator with electron and node-pty. But when the app starts, it immediately crashes with the message (node:51806) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Error: ...
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There is a chromium flag called "overlay-scrollbar". It is supposed to re-enable css overflow: overlay. Some websites and articles claim that this chromium flag is disabled. However, it is ...
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Question: I’m exploring the architecture for a desktop application that needs to: Capture both microphone input and system audio (e.g. Zoom/Meet calls) Process the audio stream in near real-time (...
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I am writing cause I wanted to get some opinions from folks here that have actually built and shipped with Electron. Background: Building an API IDE on Electron. Not really “just an API client”, and ...
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I'm developing an Electron web-like desktop app. I currently have a Login Page and a Home Page. Currently, the logic for login is implemented for development only so values are configured in an .env ...
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I imported the Chrome Manifest v3 extension into my project, but it failed to run due to errors of type “onRemoved” and “onClicked”. How can I resolve this issue? (electron) 'session.loadExtension' is ...
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I was tasked with creating a system that would basically update a device with information. In that system it needs to connect to an android device with code. How can i do so without adb or developer ...
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I’m building an Electron-based IDE (https://github.com/Temple-Enterprise/Axiowisp) using electron-builder with the NSIS target on Windows. I have a custom .ico file configured in my build settings: &...
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I am trying to decrypt and import my env variables with Dotenvx. Previously we were using the traditional dotenv package which all worked. We want to switch to dotenvx for the encryption capabilities ...
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I’m using Electron + Vue + Vite in a pnpm workspace, and I’m stuck between two Prisma import errors. Environment Electron 28.x Prisma 5.22.0 @prisma/client 5.22.0 Vite + vite-plugin-electron pnpm ...
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I’m having an issue where my Electron app does not apply my icon.ico to the generated .exe file or its shortcuts after building the Windows installer. I’m using: electron: ^33.0.0 electron-builder: ^...
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I’m developing a desktop application for Windows 10 using Electron and Node.js. How can I programmatically open the Windows 10 on-screen (virtual) keyboard? Currently, I’m opening the touch keyboard, ...
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For example, including a screenshot functionality (npm screenshot-desktop) require imagemagick in linux (installed via sudo apt install imagemagick ) I tried to compile the app (using electron forge, ...
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I've encountered a strange problem. I have an Electron.NET application. In Startup.cs var window = Electron.WindowManager .CreateWindowAsync(new BrowserWindowOptions { Width = 1152, Height = 940, ...
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I want to use react-router v5 in electron app. I have a navbar component like this. But whenever I click on an Navlink (by default it's Home), it don't switch to exact component as I want. Here is my ...
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In principle, all I'm looking to accomplish is embed a static build of a web app into an electron powered vite app. Context == File Structure == - public/ | - static_build/ | - index.html | - ... ...
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I'm using Electron and Vite package to manage hot-reload on my app. I'd like to call an event on close, which does some stuff, which works on both user's close and Vite's hot reload (which close the ...
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I am new in Angular environment and I am actually developing a little desktop app with electron. I have inserted the selector (app-root) of the App component (generated automatically) into index.html'...
Tooling
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I have an Electron app that I build using webpack + electron-forge. I consider to migrate to vite + electron-builder. The migration succeeded quite smoothly, and dev experience with vite is way better ...
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I'm new to building Electron apps and was trying to create a transparent, blurred window in a Vite + React + Electron app using vibrancy: 'under-window'. I checked both the CSS and the BrowserWindow ...
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The project is electron+typescript, I enter two commands npm run build and npm start, it hints need install electron-prebuilt-compile package, as shown image. https://i.sstatic.net/fyvYMR6t.png The ...
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I’m trying to automate an Electron desktop application using Playwright, but there’s a complication: The app cannot be opened manually. It only launches when an exam link is clicked, e.g., exam://...
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I am using spawn to open exe app, it's open success but behind Window Task manager, can someone help? I am using tablet mode: kioskProcess = spawn( 'cmd.exe', [ '/c', ...
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I am packaging my Electron application with Electron Builder. The command is: npx electron-builder build The build works well enough, but I get the following warning: (node:27191) [DEP0190] ...
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I just make a simple photobox electron app. The printable photo is already set in the sessionPath with name "photo_print.jpg". The problem here is the print function is error, the result is ...
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As far as I’m aware, the old way of registering protocols has been deprecated. In my code I have the following for an internal protocol: // Before: protocol.registerStringProtocol( 'doit',...
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From the answer to a question I asked (Electron: Drag and Drop a file on the icon) I have the following code to process files dropped on an icon for a running Electron app: // main.js const {app, ...
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I’m using Electron Builder to package my application. I’m doing this on a Macintosh because I can, and that’s my development environment. The command is: npx electron-builder build --win --x64; It ...
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I am developing a Windows Electron application and I suspect a USB / libusb conflict between the usb library and Yoctopuce’s JavaScript API (yoctolib-cjs/yocto_api). When both are used in the same ...
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According to my intentions, the application must display the loading screen until FileManager class will finish the initialization. Once this initialization done, the broswerWindow must to submit the &...
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I am working on a project using electron-vite and using the @quick-start command for scaffolding the project. When I used this template, it came with a folder called "Build". I tried to ...
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I am trying to import a React component Menu.jsx from App.jsx in my Electron app. No errors are showing up, but nothing is being rendered and are not added to the DOM (the body is empty when I looked ...
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I created a serverside Blazor App and "electronized" it by following the instructions in the read me on the electronNET/electron.NET github page. One of the requirements for this app is to ...
Tooling
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I have a React web app that I am running inside an Electron app. I am doing this so that I can screen record like so: window.electronAPI.startRecording(); However, some of the content on the screen ...
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I'm developing a Linux application that opens SSO authentication URLs in the default browser. On Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, when Firefox is the default browser, clicking the SSO link shows a file picker ...

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