How to integrate Electron ipcRenderer into Angular 2 app based on TypeScript?

Question

I want to use ipcMain / ipcRenderer on my project to communicate from Angular to Electron and back.

The Electron side is pretty clear:

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Answer 1

This should just be a case of requiring the ipcRenderer module in your main html file (electron will provide this for you):

and then setting up a handler in your main js file:

const ipcMain = require('electron').ipcMain;
ipcMain.on('getSomething', function(event, arg) {
  event.returnValue = 'something';
});

That's all there should be to it.