Electron: A Tale of Two Processes

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Electron combines Chromium, Node and native OS APIs into two cooperating processes: a main process that controls app lifecycle and spawns windows and separate renderer processes for each UI. Chromium and Node share a single shared V8; a coordinator thread watches a libuv file descriptor to wake Chromium’s message loop so Node events run without a busy loop. IPC (and the synchronous remote wrapper) moves data between processes; invisible renderers act as heavyweight workers. Electron 1.0 ships (May 2016) and powers over 220 apps using 300k+ npm modules.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 10:22Devtools
3. 10:34Popular Dev Tools Extensions
4. 11:33Native Api
5. 13:12Recap
6. 16:14Renderer Process
7. 19:19Hidden Renderer Process
8. 20:23The Electron Api
9. 21:47Ipc and Ipc Renderer Modules
10. 23:16Remote
11. 25:02Electron Api Demos App
12. 25:57Electron Api
13. 30:32Package Json
14. 31:19The Electron Quick Start App
15. 32:34Resources

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