electron-ipc-rpc

Simple and tiny RPC wrapper around electron ipc

Why?

I created this module because I wanted a more convenient drop-in replacement for socket.io when porting "classic" web apps to electron.

Usage

main

const Rpc = require('electron-ipc-rpc');
const rpc = new Rpc(electron.ipcMain, mainWindow.webContents);

rpc.on('method2', (params, callback) => {
    callback(null, 'method2 response!');
});

rpc.send('method1', [], (err, res) => {
    console.log(res); 
});

renderer

const Rpc = require('electron-ipc-rpc');
const rpc = new Rpc(electron.ipcRenderer);

rpc.on('method1', (params, callback) => {
    callback(null, 'method1 response');
});

rpc.send('method2', [], (err, res) => {
    console.log(res); 
});

Timeout

By default a method call times out after 30s without response. This can be changed by just overwriting rpc.timeout with the desired millisecond value.

License

MIT © Sebastian Raff