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https://github.com/juliangruber/electron-stream
Streaming wrapper around electron
https://github.com/juliangruber/electron-stream
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Streaming wrapper around electron
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/juliangruber/electron-stream
- Owner: juliangruber
- Created: 2015-10-28T11:22:19.000Z (about 9 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2023-10-05T18:59:02.000Z (about 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-12-07T10:02:04.843Z (15 days ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 317 KB
- Stars: 127
- Watchers: 5
- Forks: 18
- Open Issues: 10
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
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README
# electron-stream
Write JavaScript to `electron`, get console output back!
[](https://www.npmjs.org/package/electron-stream)
## Example
Boot a hidden electron instance, log to stdout and clean up:
```js
var electron = require('electron-stream');
var browser = electron();
browser.pipe(process.stdout);
browser.write('console.log(window.location.href);');
browser.write('window.close();');
browser.end();
```
Alternatively, use an existing http server. Note you cannot write to electron-stream when outside http server is in use.
```js
var electron = require('electron-stream');
var http = require('http');
var server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
if (/^\/bundle\.js/.test(req.url)) {
res.setHeader('content-type', 'application/javascript');
res.setHeader('cache-control', 'no-cache');
res.end('console.log("hello");window.close();');
return;
}
if (req.url == '/') {
res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html');
res.end(``);
return;
}
});
server.listen(8000);
var browser = electron({ loc: 'http://localhost:8000' });
browser.pipe(process.stdout);
browser.end();
```
## Output streams
`electron-stream` lets you read all of the console output together, or split up into `stdout` and `stderr`:
```js
// console.log and console.error
browser.pipe(...);
browser.stdall.pipe(...);
// console.log only
browser.stdout.pipe(...);
// console.error only
browser.stderr.pipe(...);
```
## Installation
To install as a library:
```bash
$ npm install electron-stream
```
To install as a binary:
```bash
$ npm install -g electron-stream
$ echo "console.log('foo');window.close()" | electron-stream
```
## Travis
To use electron on travis, add this to your travis.yml:
```yml
addons:
apt:
packages:
- xvfb
install:
- export DISPLAY=':99.0'
- Xvfb :99 -screen 0 1024x768x24 > /dev/null 2>&1 &
- npm install
```
[Source](https://github.com/rhysd/Shiba/blob/055a11a0a2b4f727577fe61371a88d8db9277de5/.travis.yml).
## API
### electron([opts])
Create a writable stream around a newly spawned `electron` which forwards written data to `electron`. This module bundles [electron-prebuilt](https://npmjs.org/package/electron-prebuilt).
Options:
- `show`: Show the electron window. Defaults to `false`.
- `node`: Enable node integration. Defaults to `false`.
- `basedir`: Set this if you need to require node modules in `node` mode
- `static`: Serve static files from this directory at `/`
- `loc`: a full url like `http://localhost:8080/` for using an existing http server. When `loc` is supplied, options `node`, `basedir`, and `static` are all ignored.
- `sandbox`: Run electron with sandbox. Disable to emit debug information when using Docker. Defaults to `true`.
### electron#stdout
### electron#stderr
### electron#stdall
Readable streams containing the console output. `console.log` will be forwarded to `.stdout`, `console.error` to `.stderr`. `.stdall` has them both.
### electron#kill()
Kill the child process.
### electron#on('exit', fn)
Emitted when the underlying `electron` exits. There can be multiple reasons for this:
- `electron#kill()` was called
- `window.close()` was sent as a script
- there was a fatal error
## License
MIT