The Action Registry

The action registry maintains a registry of functions that can be executed in the main process from a renderer process. Think of actions like a very simple RPC like mechansim.

There is only one action registry and it can always be found at jancy.actionRegistry.

To call an action from a renderer process via the ipcRenderer API the call would look something like this:

ipcRenderer.send('action', { type: 'dispatch', action: 'some-action-id', args: args })

where args can be anything that can be serialized with the structured clone algorithm.

Methods

actionRegistry.register(id, func)

• id (string)
• func (function)

Associates func with id and makes it dispatchable.

func will be called with the following arguments:

• args (any)
• sender (webContents)

actionRegistry.unregister(id)

• id (string)

Unregisters a previously registered function by id.