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Electron Fiddle Gist
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Hello World!</title>
</head>
<body>
<script>
function makeRequest() {
httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
if (!httpRequest) {
alert('Giving up :( Cannot create an XMLHTTP instance');
return false;
}
httpRequest.onreadystatechange = ajaxStateChange;
httpRequest.open('GET', '/static/renderer.js');
httpRequest.send();
}
function ajaxStateChange() {
console.log(`ajaxStateChange readyState: ${httpRequest.readyState} statusCode: ${httpRequest.status}`);
if (httpRequest.readyState === XMLHttpRequest.DONE) {
if (httpRequest.status === 200) {
console.log(httpRequest.responseText);
setTimeout(makeRequest, 1000);
} else {
console.log(`Invalid response ${httpRequest.status}`);
}
}
}
setTimeout(makeRequest, 1000);
</script>
</body>
</html>
// Modules to control application life and create native browser window
const {app, BrowserWindow, protocol} = require('electron')
const path = require("path");
const fs = require("fs");
const url = require("url");
const PassThrough = require('stream').PassThrough;
// Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will
// be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected.
let mainWindow;
protocol.registerSchemesAsPrivileged([
{scheme: 'custom', privileges: {standard: true, secure: true}},
]);
function createWindow () {
function createStream (text) {
const rv = new PassThrough() // PassThrough is also a Readable stream
rv.push(text)
rv.push(null)
return rv
}
protocol.registerStreamProtocol("custom", (request, callback) => {
let requestUrl = url.parse(request.url, /*parseQueryString*/ true, /*slashesDenoteHost*/ true);
let filePath = requestUrl.pathname.replace(
/^\/static/,
path
.join(__dirname)
.replace(/[?#&].*/, '')
);
console.log(filePath);
if (filePath.endsWith(".js")) {
callback({
statusCode: 200,
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'text/plain',
},
data: createStream(fs.readFileSync(filePath))
})
} else {
callback({
statusCode: 200,
headers: {
'Content-Type': 'text/html',
},
data: createStream(fs.readFileSync(filePath))
})
}
})
// Create the browser window.
mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true
}
})
// and load the index.html of the app.
mainWindow.loadURL('custom://test/static/index.html')
// Open the DevTools.
mainWindow.webContents.openDevTools()
// Emitted when the window is closed.
mainWindow.on('closed', function () {
// Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows
// in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time
// when you should delete the corresponding element.
mainWindow = null
})
}
// This method will be called when Electron has finished
// initialization and is ready to create browser windows.
// Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs.
app.on('ready', createWindow)
// Quit when all windows are closed.
app.on('window-all-closed', function () {
// On OS X it is common for applications and their menu bar
// to stay active until the user quits explicitly with Cmd + Q
if (process.platform !== 'darwin') {
app.quit()
}
})
app.on('activate', function () {
// On OS X it's common to re-create a window in the app when the
// dock icon is clicked and there are no other windows open.
if (mainWindow === null) {
createWindow()
}
})
// In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process
// code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here.
// Just using this file as an example file to be served by the custom scheme handler
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