feat: Support Electron utility process #991
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Closes #987
utility.js
main.js
How it works
We wrap
electron.utilityProcess.fork
which allows us to set up a message port between the processes. All events from the utility process are passed to the main process via a custom transport. This way we retain the offline support, events get the full Electron context and all events go through the main processbeforeSend
callback.Unlike renderer processes, utility processes do not yet sync scope (ie. user, tags, extra, etc) to the main process.