Accessing the Windows registry and reading/writing files

[alexcroox]

Is it possible to access the Windows registry? I want to download some files via FTP to a STEAM game folder, but I'd rather not ask the user manually where STEAM is installed when I can work it out from the registry entry.

Also I can't find any documentation about reading and writing files to the filesystem like there is with nw.js. Has this been implemented?

[circuitbomb]

You might be able to use the shell module to run a shell-script that pipes what your looking for to the clipboard, retrieves it using the clipboard module, and then clears the clipboard when its done(or gets whats already there and rewrites it when its finished). Not sure about r/w files though.

[justinmchase]

Take a look at the windows package in npm:
https://www.npmjs.com/package/windows

It has some registry apis. They only work on windows of course.

[anaisbetts]

You should just use node.js modules to do this (winreg is a good one), you don't need to do anything special in Electron for this

[digitalextremist]

Came looking for the same thing... followed @justinmchase link; found updated ffi version:

node-windows https://www.npmjs.com/package/node-windows