Cant receive ipc msg after webpack hot reload

main.js ipcMain.answerRenderer(IPCMsg.GetConfig, () => { return config.data })

renderer.js async load () { let data = await ipcRenderer.callMain(IPCMsg.GetConfig) console.log(data) }

Everything is normal at startup, but after modifying some code to trigger a hot update, ipcRenderer can only send messages, can’t receive messages.

In electron-better-ipc/source/renderer.js:6 const ipc = Object.create(ipcRenderer); Modify to const ipc = ipcRenderer; Fixed this bug

I don’t know why

[sindresorhus]

You chose to provide a “better” IPC (hence the name of the package!), so you wanted all standard APIs to also exist in your exported object. Am I correct?

Correct

[papb]

@sindresorhus Thanks for the response. Makes sense. Although when I asked, I was thinking of the following alternative:

- const ipc = Object.create(ipcMain || {});
+ const ipc = {};

And then in the places where you use standard electron IPC APIs:

- ipc.off(dataChannel, onData);
+ ipcMain.off(dataChannel, onData);

But I think I know the answer. You chose to provide a “better” IPC (hence the name of the package!), so you wanted all standard APIs to also exist in your exported object. Am I correct?