Accessing store from renderer

[RobbieTheWagner]

I've been looking through issues about how to use the store in the renderer, and most issues say something like just use it the same as you would in main, but this is confusing to me. It appears the store is not a singleton, so if you set it up in main, there is no way to access the same store in the renderer, correct?

[sindresorhus]

#15 (And yes, I need to get that documented in the readme)

[RobbieTheWagner]

@sindresorhus I would recommend documenting something like this for accessing store values from the renderer:

ipcMain.on('requestStoreValue', (event, key) => {
  event.sender.send('replyStoreValue', key, store.get(key));
});

[sindresorhus]

Agreed. Especially important as Electron plans to deprecate the remote module (remote.require).

[RobbieTheWagner]

@sindresorhus would you like me to try to throw together a PR?

[sindresorhus]

@rwwagner90 That would be great. Would be best to show usage with the .invoke/.handle` APIs as they simplify this kind of communication: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/api/ipc-main#ipcmainhandlechannel-listener

[RobbieTheWagner]

@sindresorhus I opened a PR. Please let me know if you would like any changes to the content!

[jeoy]

@sindresorhus I just found out I can set in Main process and directly get in renderer process, but why since you mentioned it's not a singleton.

// mainProcess.js
import Store from 'electron-store';
const store = new Store();

store.set('foo',  'bar');

// renderer.js

import Store from 'electron-store';
const store = new Store();

store.get('foo');
//=> 'bar'