ngx-electron

ngx-electron

ngx-electron is a small Module for Angular which makes calling Electron APIs from the Renderer Process easier. By adding it to your Angular projet, you'll get intelli sense and a simple Angular service which acts as facade for Electron API's.

ngx-electron is licensed under MIT.

Introduction

Checkout the introduction post on my blog for more details.

Installation

ngx-electron can be installed easily using either yarn or npm commands in the scope of an angular project.

yarn add ngx-electron --save
# or
npm install ngx-electron --save

The NgxElectronModule needs to be import in your root Angular module (eg AppModule).

import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { BrowserModule } from '@angular/platform-browser';
import { AppComponent } from './app.component';

import { NgxElectronModule } from 'ngx-electron';


@NgModule({
    declarations: [],
    imports: [
      BrowserModule,
      NgxElectronModule
    ],
    bootstrap: [AppComponent]
})
export class AppModule {
 
}

Once the module has been imported, you can easily use dependency injection to get an instance of ElectronService.

import { Component } from '@angular/core';
import { ElectronService } from 'ngx-electron';
 
@Component({
  selector: 'my-app',
  templateUrl: 'app.html'
})
export class AppComponent {
 
    constructor(private _electronService: ElectronService) { }
    
    public playPingPong() {
        if(this._electronService.isElectronApp) {
            let pong: string = this._electronService.ipcRenderer.sendSync('ping');
            console.log(pong);
        }
    }
}

ElectronService

The ElectronService is exposing all API's accessible from within Electron's renderer process. If your app is not running inside electron, all getters will return NULL instead.

Properties

• desktopCapturer: Electron.DesktopCapturer - Electron's desktop capturing API
• ipcRenderer: Electron.IpcRenderer - Electron IpcRenderer
• remote: Electron.Remote - Electron Remote capabilities
• webFrame: Electron.WebFrame - Electron WebFrame
• clipboard: Electron.Clipboard - Clipboard API
• crashReporter: Electron.CrashReporter - Electron's CrashReporter
• process: NodeJS.Process - Electron's Process Object
• screen: Electron.Screen - Electron's Screen API
• shell: Electron.Shell - Electron's Shell API
• nativeImage: Electron.NativeImage - Electron's NativeImage API
• isElectronApp: boolean - Indicates if app is being executed inside of electron or not