Make a link from Electron open in browser

Question

Is there any (simple/built-in way) to open a new browser (I mean default OS browser) window for a link from Electron instead of visiting that link inside your Electron app ?

Answer 1

To run an Electron project in your actual browser (Chrome, Mozilla, etc), add this to your script are external script:

aTags = document.getElementsByTagName("a");
for (var i = 0; i < aTags.length; i++) {
     aTags[i].setAttribute("onclick","require('shell').openExternal('" + aTags[i].href + "')");
     aTags[i].href = "#";
}