webpack-dev-server electron multithreading

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Looking to better understand the way to approach my desired goal. Building an electron application that will perform processor intense tasks. I would like to utilize multithreaded design using the approach of creating a hidden BrowserWindow() for each task.

I am currently using electron-webpack and webpack-dev-serve for development. I am having limited success at the moment. What would be the best/cleanest way to have the following architecture that runs both in development and production mode.

Desired Architecture

I currently have main.js and renderer.js working well. Now I am attempting to run additional BrowserWindows that will perform more processor intensive task, but I am not sure on how to get this working. I did find a good example here of electron background processing, but this does not involve using electron-webpack and webpack-dev-serve.

I was thinking to have my src code like this

src/common/task1/

  - task1.html

  - task1.js

src/common/task2/

  - task2.html

  - task2.js

In my main.js (production) I would have:

let bg = new BrowserWindow({ show: false })

bg.loadURL(url.format({

  pathname:  path.join(__dirname, 'common/task1/task1.html'),

  protocol: 'file',

  slashes: true

}))

currently, I can see common/* bundled in my app.asar. However, it does not seem to load the task1.html file. I have the BrowserWindow set show: true. So I do see the window and I don't see any errors. However, my <h1> tag to prove the html is loaded is not showing in the window. I don't need any HTML to display, because the window should be hidden and I only wish to use the window to run processor intensive javascript code.

multithreading webpack electron webpack-dev-server

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Looking to better understand the way to approach my desired goal. Building an electron application that will perform processor intense tasks. I would like to utilize multithreaded design using the approach of creating a hidden BrowserWindow() for each task.

I am currently using electron-webpack and webpack-dev-serve for development. I am having limited success at the moment. What would be the best/cleanest way to have the following architecture that runs both in development and production mode.

Desired Architecture

I currently have main.js and renderer.js working well. Now I am attempting to run additional BrowserWindows that will perform more processor intensive task, but I am not sure on how to get this working. I did find a good example here of electron background processing, but this does not involve using electron-webpack and webpack-dev-serve.

I was thinking to have my src code like this

src/common/task1/

  - task1.html

  - task1.js

src/common/task2/

  - task2.html

  - task2.js

In my main.js (production) I would have:

let bg = new BrowserWindow({ show: false })

bg.loadURL(url.format({

  pathname:  path.join(__dirname, 'common/task1/task1.html'),

  protocol: 'file',

  slashes: true

}))

currently, I can see common/* bundled in my app.asar. However, it does not seem to load the task1.html file. I have the BrowserWindow set show: true. So I do see the window and I don't see any errors. However, my <h1> tag to prove the html is loaded is not showing in the window. I don't need any HTML to display, because the window should be hidden and I only wish to use the window to run processor intensive javascript code.

multithreading webpack electron webpack-dev-server

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Looking to better understand the way to approach my desired goal. Building an electron application that will perform processor intense tasks. I would like to utilize multithreaded design using the approach of creating a hidden BrowserWindow() for each task.

I am currently using electron-webpack and webpack-dev-serve for development. I am having limited success at the moment. What would be the best/cleanest way to have the following architecture that runs both in development and production mode.

Desired Architecture

I currently have main.js and renderer.js working well. Now I am attempting to run additional BrowserWindows that will perform more processor intensive task, but I am not sure on how to get this working. I did find a good example here of electron background processing, but this does not involve using electron-webpack and webpack-dev-serve.

I was thinking to have my src code like this

src/common/task1/

  - task1.html

  - task1.js

src/common/task2/

  - task2.html

  - task2.js

In my main.js (production) I would have:

let bg = new BrowserWindow({ show: false })

bg.loadURL(url.format({

  pathname:  path.join(__dirname, 'common/task1/task1.html'),

  protocol: 'file',

  slashes: true

}))

currently, I can see common/* bundled in my app.asar. However, it does not seem to load the task1.html file. I have the BrowserWindow set show: true. So I do see the window and I don't see any errors. However, my <h1> tag to prove the html is loaded is not showing in the window. I don't need any HTML to display, because the window should be hidden and I only wish to use the window to run processor intensive javascript code.

multithreading webpack electron webpack-dev-server

share|improve this question

asked Nov 19 '18 at 12:41

user2027058

33

Looking to better understand the way to approach my desired goal. Building an electron application that will perform processor intense tasks. I would like to utilize multithreaded design using the approach of creating a hidden BrowserWindow() for each task.

I am currently using electron-webpack and webpack-dev-serve for development. I am having limited success at the moment. What would be the best/cleanest way to have the following architecture that runs both in development and production mode.

Desired Architecture

I currently have main.js and renderer.js working well. Now I am attempting to run additional BrowserWindows that will perform more processor intensive task, but I am not sure on how to get this working. I did find a good example here of electron background processing, but this does not involve using electron-webpack and webpack-dev-serve.

I was thinking to have my src code like this

src/common/task1/

  - task1.html

  - task1.js

src/common/task2/

  - task2.html

  - task2.js

In my main.js (production) I would have:

let bg = new BrowserWindow({ show: false })

bg.loadURL(url.format({

  pathname:  path.join(__dirname, 'common/task1/task1.html'),

  protocol: 'file',

  slashes: true

}))

currently, I can see common/* bundled in my app.asar. However, it does not seem to load the task1.html file. I have the BrowserWindow set show: true. So I do see the window and I don't see any errors. However, my <h1> tag to prove the html is loaded is not showing in the window. I don't need any HTML to display, because the window should be hidden and I only wish to use the window to run processor intensive javascript code.

multithreading webpack electron webpack-dev-server

multithreading webpack electron webpack-dev-server

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asked Nov 19 '18 at 12:41

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