Effect / Electron IPC Handlers

This repository demonstrates a problem that arises when one wants to use services created with Effect inside of Electron IPC handlers, which are event listeners whose callbacks must return a value, and that value is then sent back to the renderer process by the Electron runtime.

Running

Note that I have only tested this on macOS.

$ git clone https://github.com/jclem/electron-effect
$ cd electron-effect
$ npm install
$ npm start

Tour

• src/main.ts is the main Electron process. It sets up our Effect program and IPC handlers.
• src/renderer.ts is the renderer process. It sends a message to the main process and logs the response.
• src/preload.ts defines our IPC API.