Minimal Example: Opening a window in electron from react application?

Say I am building a desktop application with react/redux & electron. So my index.html file in electron looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
 ...
  <body>

    <div id="content"></div>

  <script src="public/js/bundle.js"></script>
  </body>
</html>

My biggest React container (call it app.js) is loaded into the 'id=content' div. This works fine so far, but now I am wondering how to open a new file dialog window (or any new window for that matter) when the user clicks a button in my react application.

I found some examples here & here, but both examples only explain how to load the file dialog window from the main electron processes (in renderer or main).

However, I want the user to engage with my React Application and then, once he or she clicks a button, my app should then tell electron to spawn a new window, and this new window should, of course, somehow be part of my react application.

I would really appreciate it if someone could provide a minimal example here, on how these to things work together.

The "createPortal" api in react 16 will help you.

First let's say we have a component like this:

<SubWindow>
  <h1>bar</h1>
</SubWindow>

Then open(or close) a window in its lifecycle methods like this:

export class SubWindow extends React.Component {
  nativeWindowObject: null;

  componentWillMount() {
    this.nativeWindowObject = window.open('');
  }
  render() {
    return this.nativeWindowObject ? ReactDOM.createPortal(this.props.children, this.nativeWindowObject.document.body) : null;
  }
}

Notice: You MUST set webPreferences:{nativeWindowOpen: true} in your main window to make sure "window.open" returns a native Window object. Visit https://electronjs.org/docs/api/window-open for more infomation.

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42735295/minimal-example-opening-a-window-in-electron-from-react-application

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