nodeIntegration and multiple windows

[johnlindquist]

Electron can have multiple BrowserWindow instances. Each of them can configure webPreferences and have different settings for nodeIntegration.

Since nodeIntegration is "per window", I don't know if it makes sense to have a global build setting for nodeIntegration.

[caoxiemeihao]

https://github.com/electron-vite/vite-plugin-electron-renderer#config-presets-opinionated

vite-plugin-electron-renderer just does some initialization configurations, but they are not mandatory and user configurations have higher priority.
If the user provides a corresponding configuration, the user configuration is used first.

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By default Vite's configuration will take effect for each BrowserWindow.
Does your application have multiple HTML files as entry points?
for your application? For example foo.html, bar.html, baz.html.

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Multiple BrowserWindow need to be set with different webPreferences then they need to correspond to multiple config files, which may require the use of the Vite's JavaScript API.

e.g.

// scripts/build-renderer.mjs
import { build } from 'vite'
import renderer from 'vite-plugin-electron-renderer'

// foo.html
build({
  plugins: [
    renderer({ nodeIntegration: true }), // Enabled nodeIntegration
  ],
  build: {
    rollupOptions: {
      input: 'foo.html',
    },
  },
})

// bar.html
build({
  plugins: [
    renderer(), // Disable nodeIntegration
  ],
  build: {
    rollupOptions: {
      input: 'bar.html',
    },
  },
})

// -------------------------------------------------------------

// scripts/serve-renderer.mjs
// TODO: something

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If this is how you imagine it, I can try to provide a boilerplate project that can have separate webPreferences.nodeIntegration for BrowserWindow.

[caoxiemeihao]

Here 👉 multiple-window

[johnlindquist]

@caoxiemeihao Awesome! Sorry I've been quiet recently. I had a huge influx of Script Kit users and haven't been able to focus on the vite branch like I need to 😅

I promise to get back to it soon!

[Andrew-web-coder]

@caoxiemeihao Where did that example go?

[caoxiemeihao]

@Andrew-web-coder updated