Awesome
astilectron
is an Electron app that provides an API over a TCP socket that allows executing Electron's method as well as capturing Electron's events.
Warning
This project is not maintained anymore.
Architecture
+-----------------------+ TCP +-------------+ IPC +---------------------+
+ Client App (any Lang) |<--------->+ Astilectron +<-------->+ win1: (HTML/JS/CSS) +
+-----------------------+ +-------------+ | +---------------------++
| | +---->+ win2: (HTML/JS/CSS) +
| +----------+ | | +---------------------++
+---------+ Electron +--------+ +-->+ win3: (HTML/JS/CSS) +
+----------+ +---------------------+
Language bindings
Language bindings play a major role with astilectron
as they allow communicating with its TCP socket and therefore interacting with its API in any language.
I want to develop language bindings for a new language
Great! :)
Here's a few things you need to know:
- it's the responsibility of the language bindings to provision
astilectron
which usually consists of downloading and unzippingastilectron
as well aselectron
- the TCP addr is sent to
astilectron
through a command line argument therefore your command line when callingastilectron
should look like<path to electron executable> <path to astilectron directory>/main.js <tcp addr>
Language bindings for GO
Check out go-astilectron for astilectron
GO language bindings
Features and roadmap
- window basic methods (create, show, close, resize, minimize, maximize, ...)
- window basic events (close, blur, focus, unresponsive, crashed, ...)
- remote messaging (messages between GO and the JS in the webserver)
- multi screens/displays
- menu methods and events (create, insert, append, popup, clicked, ...)
- dialogs (open or save file, alerts, ...)
- accelerators (shortcuts)
- file methods (drag & drop, ...)
- clipboard methods
- power monitor events (suspend, resume, ...)
- notifications (macosx)
- desktop capturer (audio and video)
- session methods
- session events
- window advanced options (add missing ones)
- window advanced methods (add missing ones)
- window advanced events (add missing ones)
- child windows
Contribute
For now only GO has its official bindings with astilectron
, but the more language has its bindings the better! Therefore if you feel like implementing bindings with astilectron
in some other language feel free to reach out to me to get some more info and finally to get your repo listed here.
Also I'm far from being an expert in Node.JS therefore if you see anything that seems wrong in astilectron
feel free to create an issue or even better contribute through a PR!
You know you want to! :D
Cheers to
thrust which is awesome but unfortunately not maintained anymore. It inspired this project.