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Electron Fiddle Gist
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Hello World!</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./styles.css">
</head>
<body>
<button id="save">Save File</button>
<script>
// You can also require other files to run in this process
require('./renderer.js')
</script>
</body>
</html>
const {app, BrowserWindow, dialog, ipcMain} = require('electron')
const fs = require('fs');
const http = require('http');
const path = require('path');
function createWindow() {
// Create the browser window.
const mainWindow = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true
}
})
// and load the index.html of the app.
mainWindow.loadFile('index.html')
// use IPC to communicate from renderer to main
// that we want to open a dialog and save the file
ipcMain.on('download-file', () => {
const filePath = dialog.showSaveDialogSync(mainWindow, {
defaultPath: path.join(app.getPath('downloads'), "file.jpg")
});
download(filePath);
})
}
// handles download of file given a path
function download(filePath) {
const file = fs.createWriteStream(filePath);
// hardcoded image for now, can replace with any file
http.get("http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/J---aiyznGQ/mqdefault.jpg",
(response) => {
response.pipe(file);
}
);
}
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 (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
createWindow()
}
})
const { ipcRenderer } = require('electron');
const button = document.getElementById('save');
button.addEventListener('click', () => {
ipcRenderer.send('download-file')
});
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