init.ts

import * as path from 'path';
import { pathToFileURL } from 'url';
import { IPC_MESSAGES } from '@electron/internal/common/ipc-messages';

import type * as ipcRendererInternalModule from '@electron/internal/renderer/ipc-renderer-internal';
import type * as ipcRendererUtilsModule from '@electron/internal/renderer/ipc-renderer-internal-utils';

const Module = require('module') as NodeJS.ModuleInternal;

// We do not want to allow use of the VM module in the renderer process as
// it conflicts with Blink's V8::Context internal logic.
const originalModuleLoad = Module._load;
Module._load = function (request: string) {
  if (request === 'vm') {
    console.warn('The vm module of Node.js is deprecated in the renderer process and will be removed.');
  }
  return originalModuleLoad.apply(this, arguments as any);
};

// Make sure globals like "process" and "global" are always available in preload
// scripts even after they are deleted in "loaded" script.
//
// Note 1: We rely on a Node patch to actually pass "process" and "global" and
// other arguments to the wrapper.
//
// Note 2: Node introduced a new code path to use native code to wrap module
// code, which does not work with this hack. However by modifying the
// "Module.wrapper" we can force Node to use the old code path to wrap module
// code with JavaScript.
//
// Note 3: We provide the equivalent extra variables internally through the
// webpack ProvidePlugin in webpack.config.base.js.  If you add any extra
// variables to this wrapper please ensure to update that plugin as well.
Module.wrapper = [
  '(function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname, process, global, Buffer) { ' +
  // By running the code in a new closure, it would be possible for the module
  // code to override "process" and "Buffer" with local variables.
  'return function (exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname) { ',
  '\n}.call(this, exports, require, module, __filename, __dirname); });'
];

// We modified the original process.argv to let node.js load the
// init.js, we need to restore it here.
process.argv.splice(1, 1);

// Import common settings.
require('@electron/internal/common/init');

const { ipcRendererInternal } = require('@electron/internal/renderer/ipc-renderer-internal') as typeof ipcRendererInternalModule;
const ipcRendererUtils = require('@electron/internal/renderer/ipc-renderer-internal-utils') as typeof ipcRendererUtilsModule;

process.getProcessMemoryInfo = () => {
  return ipcRendererInternal.invoke<Electron.ProcessMemoryInfo>(IPC_MESSAGES.BROWSER_GET_PROCESS_MEMORY_INFO);
};

// Process command line arguments.
const { hasSwitch, getSwitchValue } = process._linkedBinding('electron_common_command_line');
const { mainFrame } = process._linkedBinding('electron_renderer_web_frame');

const nodeIntegration = mainFrame.getWebPreference('nodeIntegration');
const appPath = hasSwitch('app-path') ? getSwitchValue('app-path') : null;

// Common renderer initialization
require('@electron/internal/renderer/common-init');

if (nodeIntegration) {
  // Export node bindings to global.
  const { makeRequireFunction } = __non_webpack_require__('internal/modules/helpers');
  global.module = new Module('electron/js2c/renderer_init');
  global.require = makeRequireFunction(global.module);

  // Set the __filename to the path of html file if it is file: protocol.
  if (window.location.protocol === 'file:') {
    const location = window.location;
    let pathname = location.pathname;

    if (process.platform === 'win32') {
      if (pathname[0] === '/') pathname = pathname.substr(1);

      const isWindowsNetworkSharePath = location.hostname.length > 0 && process.resourcesPath.startsWith('\\');
      if (isWindowsNetworkSharePath) {
        pathname = `//${location.host}/${pathname}`;
      }
    }

    global.__filename = path.normalize(decodeURIComponent(pathname));
    global.__dirname = path.dirname(global.__filename);

    // Set module's filename so relative require can work as expected.
    global.module.filename = global.__filename;

    // Also search for module under the html file.
    global.module.paths = Module._nodeModulePaths(global.__dirname);
  } else {
    // For backwards compatibility we fake these two paths here
    global.__filename = path.join(process.resourcesPath, 'electron.asar', 'renderer', 'init.js');
    global.__dirname = path.join(process.resourcesPath, 'electron.asar', 'renderer');

    if (appPath) {
      // Search for module under the app directory
      global.module.paths = Module._nodeModulePaths(appPath);
    }
  }

  // Redirect window.onerror to uncaughtException.
  window.onerror = function (_message, _filename, _lineno, _colno, error) {
    if (global.process.listenerCount('uncaughtException') > 0) {
      // We do not want to add `uncaughtException` to our definitions
      // because we don't want anyone else (anywhere) to throw that kind
      // of error.
      global.process.emit('uncaughtException', error as any);
      return true;
    } else {
      return false;
    }
  };
} else {
  // Delete Node's symbols after the Environment has been loaded in a
  // non context-isolated environment
  if (!process.contextIsolated) {
    process.once('loaded', function () {
      delete (global as any).process;
      delete (global as any).Buffer;
      delete (global as any).setImmediate;
      delete (global as any).clearImmediate;
      delete (global as any).global;
      delete (global as any).root;
      delete (global as any).GLOBAL;
    });
  }
}

const { appCodeLoaded } = process;
delete process.appCodeLoaded;

const { preloadPaths } = ipcRendererUtils.invokeSync<{ preloadPaths: string[] }>(IPC_MESSAGES.BROWSER_NONSANDBOX_LOAD);
const cjsPreloads = preloadPaths.filter(p => path.extname(p) !== '.mjs');
const esmPreloads = preloadPaths.filter(p => path.extname(p) === '.mjs');
if (cjsPreloads.length) {
  // Load the preload scripts.
  for (const preloadScript of cjsPreloads) {
    try {
      Module._load(preloadScript);
    } catch (error) {
      console.error(`Unable to load preload script: ${preloadScript}`);
      console.error(error);

      ipcRendererInternal.send(IPC_MESSAGES.BROWSER_PRELOAD_ERROR, preloadScript, error);
    }
  }
}
if (esmPreloads.length) {
  const { runEntryPointWithESMLoader } = __non_webpack_require__('internal/modules/run_main');

  runEntryPointWithESMLoader(async (cascadedLoader: any) => {
    // Load the preload scripts.
    for (const preloadScript of esmPreloads) {
      await cascadedLoader.import(pathToFileURL(preloadScript).toString(), undefined, Object.create(null)).catch((err: Error) => {
        console.error(`Unable to load preload script: ${preloadScript}`);
        console.error(err);

        ipcRendererInternal.send(IPC_MESSAGES.BROWSER_PRELOAD_ERROR, preloadScript, err);
      });
    }
  }).finally(() => appCodeLoaded!());
} else {
  appCodeLoaded!();
}