electron/lib/browser/utils.ts

import { EventEmitter } from 'events';

/**
* Creates a lazy instance of modules that can't be required before the
* app 'ready' event by returning a proxy object to mitigate side effects
* on 'require'
*
* @param {Function} creator - Function that creates a new module instance
* @param {Object} holder - the object holding the module prototype
* @param {Boolean} isEventEmitter - whether or not the module is an EventEmitter
* @returns {Object} - a proxy object for the
*/

export function createLazyInstance (
  creator: Function,
  holder: Object,
  isEventEmitter: Boolean
) {
  let lazyModule: Object;
  const module: any = {};
  for (const method in (holder as any).prototype) { // eslint-disable-line guard-for-in
    module[method] = (...args: any) => {
      // create new instance of module at runtime if none exists
      if (!lazyModule) {
        lazyModule = creator();
        if (isEventEmitter) EventEmitter.call(lazyModule as any);
      }

      // check for properties on the prototype chain that aren't functions
      if (typeof (lazyModule as any)[method] !== 'function') {
        return (lazyModule as any)[method];
      }

      return (lazyModule as any)[method](...args);
    };
  }
  return module;
}