electronic-post-message

electronic-post-message

A postMessage polyfill for electron webview. Useful if you want to reuse existing postMessage libraries to talk with code inside an electron webview (e.g. secret-door).

Usage

Inside of webview

import installPostMessage from 'electronic-post-message'

installPostMessage()



// That's it!! Use postMessage as usual
window.parent.postMessage('ping')
window.addEventListener('message', function (msg) {
  if (msg.source === window.parent) {
    console.log(msg.data) // logs 'pong'
  }
})

In electron top level window

import installPostMessage from 'electronic-post-message'

var proxyIframe = installPostMessage({
  webview: document.getElementById('#some-webview')
})



// That's it!! Use postMessage as usual with proxyIframe.contentWindow as target
window.addEventListener('message', function (msg) {
  if (msg.source === proxyIframe.contentWindow) {
    console.log(msg.data) // logs 'ping'
    proxyIframe.contentWindow.postMessage('pong')
  }
})

FAQ

• Why is proxyIframe needed? Because an electron webview is not a Window or MessagePort. Which means we can't create an instance of MessageEvent with source set to webview since the browser throws a The optional 'source' property is neither a Window nor MessagePort. exception.