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Process Manager UI for Electron Apps

This package provides a process manager UI for Electron applications.

It opens a window displaying a table of every processes run by the Electron application with information (type, URL for webContents, memory..).

npm version

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:warning: For @electron>=3.0.0, <7.x, use version 0.7.1 of this package. For versions >=7.x, use latest.

It can be useful to debug performance of an app with several webview.

It's inspired from Chrome's task manager.

Features

⚠️ Unfortunately, memory info are no longer available in Electron>=4 (see electron/electron#16179)

Installation

$ npm install electron-process-manager

Usage

const { openProcessManager } = require('electron-process-manager');

openProcessManager();

Options

openProcessManager function can take options in paramters

options.defaultSorting

defaultSorting.how: 'ascending' | 'descending'

defaultSorting.path:

Field namepath
Pid'pid'
WebContents Domain'webContents.0.URLDomain'
Process Type'webContents.0.type'
Private Memory'memory.privateBytes'
Shared Memory'memory.sharedBytes'
Working Set Size'memory.workingSetSize'
% CPU'cpu.percentCPUUsage'
Idle Wake Ups /s'cpu.idleWakeupsPerSecond'
WebContents Id'webContents.0.id'
WebContents Type'webContents.0.type'
WebContents URL'webContents.0.URL'

example:

const { openProcessManager } = require('electron-process-manager');

openProcessManager({ how: 'descending', path: 'cpu.percentCPUUsage' });

Future

Pull requests welcome :)

License

MIT License