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How can I import React components in an Electron app?
I am trying to import a React component Menu.jsx from App.jsx in my Electron app. No errors are showing up, but nothing is being rendered and are not added to the DOM (the body is empty when I looked ...
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How to open files from the user's local device in serverside Blazor using ElectronNET?
I created a serverside Blazor App and "electronized" it by following the instructions in the read me on the electronNET/electron.NET github page. One of the requirements for this app is to ...
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Prevent Certain DOM Elements from being Screen Recorded in Electron
I have a React web app that I am running inside an Electron app. I am doing this so that I can screen record like so:
window.electronAPI.startRecording();
However, some of the content on the screen ...
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What is the difference between a framework and a set of rules and instructions, basically a blueprint as the HTML Standard? [closed]
Supposedly framework too is a set of rules, but why it's that the framework Electron and the HTML Standard which we know is a set of all the instructions and rules installed in the browser to what ...
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Electron Notifications: Will using a Map to store Notification instances prevent GC issues, and can it cause memory leaks? [closed]
I’m building an Electron Timer app where multiple notifications may be active at the same time. Initially, each Notification instance was created inside a function, but the "click" and "...
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Firefox SSO login shows file picker dialog instead of opening browser on Ubuntu 22.04/24.04
I'm developing a Linux application that opens SSO authentication URLs in the default browser.
On Ubuntu 22.04 and 24.04, when Firefox is the default browser, clicking the SSO link shows a file picker ...
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ElectronJS shell openPath cannot open file inside app.asar
Try to open a HTML file that resides inside the packaged app app.asar file. The file is there but Windows complains that cannot find the file. The pieces of the puzzle are:
inside the win-unpacked\...
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Electron IPC: File objects arrive as empty objects {} in main process
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I'm trying to send multiple files from the renderer process to the main process using Electron's IPC, but the file objects arrive empty.
Renderer Process:
if (files?.length > 1) {
window....
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Generating Interactive Documentation from Javascript Source Code
I’m working on an Electron project, and I can generate JSON for my code using JSDoc:
jsdoc -X > data.json
I want to use this JSON output to create a live, searchable documentation site similar to ...
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Electron: Alternative to navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition without API key? [closed]
In my Electron app, navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition() always fails. It seems that Electron (Chromium) no longer provides free geolocation and expects a third-party service with an API key (e....
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Transparent, unfocusable and clickable BrowserWindow in Electron
I am creating a button that is clickable but doesn't bring the app to the foreground. To achieve this I implemented the button as a separate BrowserWindow with focusable: false and its parent set to ...
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Tauri or Electron js
I’m starting a new project to build an ERP POS application using the MERN stack. I’m confused about whether I should use Electron.js or Tauri to turn it into a desktop/web app. Which option is better ...
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No app icon on Linux app with electron-builder, but shown when electron is used directly
i am programming an app with vite, svelte@4, electron and electron-builder. if i run electron ./start-electron.js the logo is shown, but after many days of trial and error i still don't get it in the ...
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Electron Builder: Built app starts UI but server + SQLite database do not run in packaged versio
I have an Electron application that uses:
React for the frontend
Node + Express backend inside /Server
A SQLite database stored inside the same /Server folder
During development, everything works ...
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Generating a virtual image for an Electron application
I’m trying to replace a the content of an image URL with the result of a custom protocol. The idea is to get the data from a zip file.
The img element looks something like this:
<img src="...
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