Question about renderer access.

[Bug-Reaper]

The store is not a singleton, so you will need to either #15, or you have to pass the values back and forth as messages. Electron provides a handy invoke/handle API that works well for accessing these values.

I am in the process of upgrading to the latest version and a question:

1. Is it actually possible to import electron-store from the renderer <script type="module" src="./someModule.js">? Every time I try it complains about the node-imports.

My current workaround involves one new Store() in the main thread and then another new Store() in a window preload script that is then exposed globally in the renderer. I wanted to sanity check that is the correct and safe approach?

[deadcoder0904]

@Bug-Reaper Try my approach which I feel is extremely simple. It even has a mini-project.

Highly recommend reading these 2 blogs that should clear all your doubts:

1. The ultimate Electron guide - https://www.debugandrelease.com/the-ultimate-electron-guide/
2. Electron: Executing Main Process Code from Renderer - https://ncoughlin.com/posts/electron-executing-main-process-code-from-renderer

[dperetti]

This library doesn't work with contextIsolation=true and this is a show stopper.

This import cannot work from the renderer, this is as simple as that. I don't understand what the devs thought. 💁‍♂️

electron-store/index.js

Line 2 in 4680903

import path from 'node:path';

The right approach would be to have different import styles in the renderer and the main process, such as: Store from 'electron-store/renderer' and import Store from 'electron-store/main'.

This is what electron-log does and it's simple and effective.

[deadcoder0904]

I went with https://github.com/alex8088/electron-conf & electron-log indeed since these projects aren't working well on newest Electron versions.

[Bug-Reaper]

@deadcoder0904 that electron-conf thing looks good. My setup with electron-store remains unbroken or I'd hop lol.

@dperetti you could context-isolation and ipcBridge wrap every store method. I'd imagine that's what electron-log doses underneath the hood. Basically, you'd write your own renderer class (not difficult per say may PR something eventually).

[dperetti]

I know, that's what I've done, but you would expect electron-store make things easy and provide documentation about it.