Where to store user settings in Electron (Atom Shell) Application?

Question

I can\'t seem to locate a built in mechanism to store user settings. I was hoping that electron provided a standard method for storing user settings across all desktop platf

Answer 1

I've faced this particular problem with my Electron app and this post inspired me to write an NPM module called electron-json-storage.

This module allows to easily write/read JSON to/from app.getPath('userData'):

const storage = require('electron-json-storage');

// Write
storage.set('foobar', { foo: 'bar' }).then(function() {

    // Read
    storage.get('foobar').then(function(object) {
        console.log(object.foo);
        // will print "bar"
    });

});