Electron 提供了一个实时构建桌面应用的纯 JavaScript 环境。Electron 可以获取到你定义在 package.json 中 main 文件内容,然后执行它。通过这个文件(通常我们称之为 main.js),可以创建一个应用窗口,这个应用窗口包含一个渲染好的 web 界面,还可以和系统原生的 GUI 交互。
具体来说,就是当你启动了一个 Electron 应用,就有一个主进程(main process )被创建了。这条进程将负责创建出应用的 GUI(也就是应用的窗口),并处理用户与这个 GUI 之间的交互。
但直接启动 main.js 是无法显示应用窗口的,在 main.js 中通过调用BrowserWindow模块才能将使用应用窗口。然后每个浏览器窗口将执行它们各自的渲染器进程( renderer process )。渲染器进程将会处理一个真正的 web 页面(HTML + CSS + JavaScript),将页面渲染到窗口中。鉴于 Electron 使用的是基于 Chrominum 的浏览器内核,你就不太需要考虑兼容的问题。
const {app, BrowserWindow} = require('electron') const path = require('path') const url = require('url') // Keep a global reference of the window object, if you don't, the window will // be closed automatically when the JavaScript object is garbage collected. let win function createWindow() { // Create the browser window. win = new BrowserWindow({ 800, height: 600, autoHideMenuBar: true }) // and load the index.html of the app. win.loadURL(url.format({ pathname: path.join(__dirname, 'index.html'), protocol: 'file:', slashes: true })) // Open the DevTools. win.webContents.openDevTools() // Emitted when the window is closed. win.on('closed', () => { // Dereference the window object, usually you would store windows // in an array if your app supports multi windows, this is the time // when you should delete the corresponding element. win = null }) } // This method will be called when Electron has finished // initialization and is ready to create browser windows. // Some APIs can only be used after this event occurs. app.on('ready', createWindow) // Quit when all windows are closed. app.on('window-all-closed', () => { // On macOS 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', () => { // On macOS 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 (win === null) { createWindow() } }) // In this file you can include the rest of your app's specific main process // code. You can also put them in separate files and require them here.