useIpcRendererInvoke

Category

@Electron

Export Size

218 B

Package

@vueuse/electron

Last Changed

last year

Reactive ipcRenderer.invoke API result. Make asynchronous operations look synchronous. Available in the @vueuse/electron add-on.

Usage

TypeScript

import { useIpcRendererInvoke } from '@vueuse/electron'

// enable nodeIntegration if you don't provide ipcRenderer explicitly
// @see: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/webview-tag#nodeintegration
// Ref result will return
const result = useIpcRendererInvoke<string>('custom-channel', 'some data')
const msg = computed(() => result.value?.msg)

import { useIpcRendererInvoke } from '@vueuse/electron'
// enable nodeIntegration if you don't provide ipcRenderer explicitly
// @see: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/webview-tag#nodeintegration
// Ref result will return
const result = useIpcRendererInvoke('custom-channel', 'some data')
const msg = computed(() => result.value?.msg)

Type Declarations

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/// <reference types="node_modules/.pnpm/electron@13.6.9/node_modules/electron/electron" />
/**
 * 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.
 *
 * You need to provide `ipcRenderer` to this function.
 *
 * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrendererinvokechannel-args
 * @see https://vueuse.org/useIpcRendererInvoke
 */
export declare function useIpcRendererInvoke<T>(
  ipcRenderer: IpcRenderer,
  channel: string,
  ...args: any[]
): Ref<T | null>
/**
 * 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.
 *
 * `ipcRenderer` will be automatically gotten.
 *
 * @see https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-renderer#ipcrendererinvokechannel-args
 * @see https://vueuse.org/useIpcRendererInvoke
 */
export declare function useIpcRendererInvoke<T>(
  channel: string,
  ...args: any[]
): Ref<T | null>

Source

Source • Docs

Contributors

Anthony Fu

Curt Grimes

ArcherGu

Changelog

v10.0.0-beta.5 on 4/13/2023

cb644 - refactor!: remove isFunction and isString utils