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zulip-desktop/app/renderer/js/electron-bridge.js
Abhigyan Khaund 124a842bbd electron-bridge: Implement electron bridge.
This PR adds a bridge to communicate with the webapp in real time. As of now, the bridge listens for following events -

* When realm name changes
* When realm icon changes
* When the unread count changes

Partially fixes #425.
2018-08-02 01:05:29 +05:30

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const events = require('events');
const { ipcRenderer } = require('electron');
// we have and will have some non camelcase stuff
// while working with zulip so just turning the rule off
// for the whole file.
/* eslint-disable camelcase */
class ElectronBridge extends events {
send_event(...args) {
this.emit(...args);
}
on_event(...args) {
this.on(...args);
}
}
const electron_bridge = new ElectronBridge();
electron_bridge.on('total_unread_count', (...args) => {
ipcRenderer.send('unread-count', ...args);
});
electron_bridge.on('realm_name', (...args) => {
ipcRenderer.send('realm-name-changed', ...args);
});
electron_bridge.on('realm_icon_url', iconURL => {
const serverURL = location.origin;
iconURL = iconURL.includes('http') ? iconURL : `${serverURL}${iconURL}`;
ipcRenderer.send('realm-icon-changed', serverURL, iconURL);
});
// this follows node's idiomatic implementation of event
// emitters to make event handling more simpler instead of using
// functions zulip side will emit event using ElectronBrigde.send_event
// which is alias of .emit and on this side we can handle the data by adding
// a listener for the event.
module.exports = electron_bridge;