jQuery on electron main process

Question

How I can use jQuery on electron main process?

It seems every example I find is for renderer process.

Example I want to create a util that will be used by the main process, that will fetch data from an api using get.

Then using $.get makes an error that get is not a function.

Thanks.

Answer 1

jQuery is a JS library for the browser, eg DOM manipulating, etc. You shouldn't use that in the main process, since the main process is running in NodeJS.

It's hard to propose a solution without knowing more about your application. If you need the data from the AJAX request in your main process, you can use NodeJS https package. Example from Twilio blog:

const https = require('https');

https.get('https://api.nasa.gov/planetary/apod?api_key=DEMO_KEY', (resp) => {
  let data = '';

  // A chunk of data has been recieved.
  resp.on('data', (chunk) => {
    data += chunk;
  });

  // The whole response has been received. Print out the result.
  resp.on('end', () => {
    console.log(JSON.parse(data).explanation);
  });

}).on("error", (err) => {
  console.log("Error: " + err.message);
});

Edit: As @Hans-Koch mentioned, you probably shouldn't use jQuery in the renderer process either since one of it's main purpose is to normalize the API for DOM manipulation, AJAX, etc. and in Electron you only have to support Chromium. If you want to make AJAX request you can use the XMLHttpRequest or some npm package which wraps it, eg xhr.