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External link handling

See original GitHub issue

Seems like external links in electron should be handled in some way, like this for example.

Would be nice to be able to write external links “normally” <a href="http://google.com" /> and have an interceptor some where handling it.

Possible solution:

I can prepare a PR with some guidance / pointers

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Created 5 years ago
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goldyluckscommented, Jul 14, 2018

How about … we put that logic in a util file, and we import that file from the client index, so users could easily comment that out + adding a reference for that in the docs?

What are the concerns for doing it high level?

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amilajackcommented, Sep 12, 2018

I think this should belong in a guide

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