Question: Could Rango currently run on Electron

[SkepticMystic]

Hey there!

I've got a question, hoping you can assist.
I learned recently that Electron has some support for Chrome extensions: https://www.electronjs.org/docs/latest/api/extensions#loading-extensions

You load an extension by calling:

window.electron.session.defaultSession.loadExtension('path/to/unpacked/extension').then(({ id }) => {
  // ...
})

One caveat is that you have to load the extension "unpacked". Now, I don't really understand this stuff, but I've done the following so far:

1. Clone repo
2. npm install & npm run build:v3
3. window.electron.session.defaultSession.loadExtension('dist-v3')

Electron is happy, no errors are thrown. But nothing about Rango seems to be in effect. No markers, the hotkeys don't work, Talon-Rango commands aren't recognised.

With your knowledge, do you think this is possible? The original link has info about which extension APIs are supported, so maybe a necessary one is missing. I don't see any logs from Rango, not sure if those would be propagated up to the app console. Any info you can share here would be really helpful

[david-tejada]

I have never created anything with Electron so I don't know if it will work. Here are somethings you can try to see if you can make it work:

• Make sure you are using the proper npm command. The one you copied here is wrong. It should be: npm run build:mv3 and the folder created dist-mv3.

• Check if the background script (service worker) is running. I'm not sure how you would do this in Electron. In Chrome you do this by going to chrome://extensions. You should be able to click the service worker link and check if there are any errors.

• Check if the content script is running. For this you open the devtools. Click on Sources and then in the left bar select Content scripts. You might have to click on the arrow ">>" to select this.

[SkepticMystic]

Hey, thanks for this!

1. I wrote it incorrectly in the issue, but used the write one in the code. This is confirmed by electron returning the mainfest after loading the extension.
2. I went to Dev Tools > Application > Service Workers, but don't see any loaded..
3. There are also no Content Scripts, as you mentioned

So it seems like this isn't working.. I'll do a bit more research to do if there's something else I need to do.
But for now, thanks for the help!