[question] Does electron-trpc support communication between windows?

[liaodalin19903]

Hello:
Does electron-trpc support communication between windows?

As we know, usually a simple project has only one mainWindow. If other windows are created, can electron-trpc be used for communication?

[jsonnull]

It's possible to do this with vanilla Electron IPC like this:

• subscribe to an IPC channel from each window
• publish messages from one window to the main thread
• have the main thread broadcast messages to all windows

I can imagine you could adapt this to a tRPC pattern:

• create subscriptions in each window which wants to receive messages
• each subscription in the router is now part of a PubSub store of some kind
• send messages to the router from one window in a mutation and have the router handle the mutation by forwarding the message to the PubSub store which can then broadcast to active subscriptions