https://github.com/d0mih/promisify-electron-ipc

Library to use promises for inter-process communication for electron.
https://github.com/d0mih/promisify-electron-ipc

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Library to use promises for inter-process communication for electron.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/d0mih/promisify-electron-ipc
• Owner: D0miH
• License: mit
• Created: 2019-03-31T15:08:40.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-12-30T17:23:59.000Z (over 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-09-09T05:18:13.369Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: electron, electron-module, ipc, ipc-message, nodejs, npm-package, promises
• Language: TypeScript
• Size: 985 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 0
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 15
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# promisify-electron-ipc

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### Library to easily use promises for inter-process communication in electron.

## Installation

```sh

npm install promisify-electron-ipc

```

or

```sh

yarn add promisify-electron-ipc

```

## Documentation

You can find the documentation [here](https://d0mih.github.io/promisify-electron-ipc/).

## Usage

Sending messages from the renderer to the main process:

```javascript

// In the main process

import { promiseIpcMain } from "promisify-electron-ipc";

promiseIpcMain.on("greet-channel", name => {

    return Promise.resolve("Hello " + name);

});

```

```javascript

// In the renderer

import { promiseIpcRenderer } from "promisify-electron-ipc";

promiseIpcRenderer

    .send("greet-channel", "Bob")

    .then(answer => console.log(answer)); // prints "Hello Bob"

```

Sending messages from the main process to the renderer:

```javascript

// In the main process

import { promiseIpcMain } from "promisify-electron-ipc";

promiseIpcMain

    .send("greet-channel", win.webContents, "Bob")

    .then(answer => console.log(answer));

```

```javascript

// In the renderer

import { promiseIpcRenderer } from "promisify-electron-ipc";

promiseIpcRenderer.on("greet-channel", name => {

    return Promise.resolve("Hello " + name);

});

```

## Credits

This library was inspired by [sibnerian](https://github.com/sibnerian/electron-promise-ipc)