Create Window and Send Message to it

[edgy flicker]

My app is using electron v. 27.3.11. I would like to up-version it to a more recent electron version.

My problem is that ipcRenderer.sendTo is deprecated in 27.3.11, but absent in more recent versions.

What is the mechanism that I can use when the app creates a new Window in a renderer process, and needs to send that Window a message after it's created?

const addToPlaylistButton = document.querySelector('#add-to-playlist');

addToPlaylistButton.addEventListener(StringLiterals.CLICK, async () => {
    const selectedTracks = tracksTable.searchData('selected', '=', true);

    // create the new window (via new remote.BrowserWindow...)
    const playlistWindow = WindowUtils.createWindow('playlist', true);
    remote.require("@electron/remote/main").enable(playlistWindow.webContents);

    playlistWindow.webContents.once(StringLiterals.DID_FINISH_LOAD, () => {
        ipcRenderer.sendTo(playlistWindow.id, StringLiterals.CHILD_WINDOW_CHANNEL, {
            'playlists': Object.keys(metadata.playlists),
            'tracks': selectedTracks,
            'defaultPlaylistName': getSelectedHierarchyRowData() !== undefined ?
                getSelectedHierarchyRowData().displayName : StringLiterals.EMPTY_STRING,
            metadata
        });
    });
});

Thanks in advance!

[ivory finch]

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/tutorial/ipc

[edgy flicker]

Thanks @ivory finch.

I was able to update the IPC for the latest version of Electron. It's unfortunate that there isn't a great way to do IPC directly from one renderer process to another renderer process, without having to have the main process orchestrate the IPC.

https://github.com/EricTerrell/ebt-music-manager/compare/efccbc8..2c8a724

[tranquil dust]

sounds like a BroadcastChannel (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/BroadcastChannel) for message exchange across windows would work for you