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useIpcRenderer

Provides ipcRenderer and all of its APIs.

Usage

import { useIpcRenderer } from '@vueuse/electron';
import { computed } from 'vue';

// enable nodeIntegration if you don't provide ipcRenderer explicitly
// see: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/webview-tag#nodeintegration
const ipcRenderer = useIpcRenderer();

// Ref result will return
const result = ipcRenderer.invoke<string>('custom-channel', 'some data');
const msg = computed(() => result.value?.msg);

// remove listener automatically on unmounted
ipcRenderer.on('custom-event', (event, ...args) => {
  console.log(args);
});

Type Declarations

/**
 * Result from useIpcRenderer
 *
 * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer
 */
export interface UseIpcRendererReturn {
  /**
   * Listens to channel, when a new message arrives listener would be called with listener(event, args...).
   * [ipcRenderer.removeListener](https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrendererremovelistenerchannel-listener) automatically on unmounted.
   *
   * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrendereronchannel-listener
   */
  on: (channel: string, listener: IpcRendererListener) => IpcRenderer;
  /**
   * Adds a one time listener function for the event. This listener is invoked only the next time a message is sent to channel, after which it is removed.
   *
   * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrendereroncechannel-listener
   */
  once: (
    channel: string,
    listener: (event: IpcRendererEvent, ...args: any[]) => void,
  ) => IpcRenderer;
  /**
   * Removes the specified listener from the listener array for the specified channel.
   *
   * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrendererremovelistenerchannel-listener
   */
  removeListener: (channel: string, listener: (...args: any[]) => void) => IpcRenderer;
  /**
   * Removes all listeners, or those of the specified channel.
   *
   * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrendererremovealllistenerschannel
   */
  removeAllListeners: (channel: string) => IpcRenderer;
  /**
   * Send an asynchronous message to the main process via channel, along with arguments.
   *
   * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrenderersendchannel-args
   */
  send: (channel: string, ...args: any[]) => void;
  /**
   * Returns Promise<any> - Resolves with the response from the main process.
   * Send a message to the main process via channel and expect a result ~~asynchronously~~.
   * As composition-api, it makes asynchronous operations look like synchronous.
   *
   * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrendererinvokechannel-args
   */
  invoke: <T>(channel: string, ...args: any[]) => ShallowRef<T | null>;
  /**
   * Returns any - The value sent back by the ipcMain handler.
   * Send a message to the main process via channel and expect a result synchronously.
   *
   * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrenderersendsyncchannel-args
   */
  sendSync: <T>(channel: string, ...args: any[]) => ShallowRef<T | null>;
  /**
   * Send a message to the main process, optionally transferring ownership of zero or more MessagePort objects.
   *
   * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrendererpostmessagechannel-message-transfer
   */
  postMessage: (channel: string, message: any, transfer?: MessagePort[]) => void;
  /**
   * Sends a message to a window with webContentsId via channel.
   *
   * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrenderersendtowebcontentsid-channel-args
   */
  sendTo: (webContentsId: number, channel: string, ...args: any[]) => void;
  /**
   * Like ipcRenderer.send but the event will be sent to the <webview> element in the host page instead of the main process.
   *
   * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrenderersendtohostchannel-args
   */
  sendToHost: (channel: string, ...args: any[]) => void;
}
/**
 * Get the `ipcRenderer` module with all APIs.
 *
 * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrenderersendtohostchannel-args
 * @see https://vueuse.org/useIpcRenderer
 */
export declare function useIpcRenderer(ipcRenderer?: IpcRenderer): UseIpcRendererReturn;