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renamed a few occurances of "web page" to "renderer"
renamed a few files that had "browser" in their name to "main-process"
note that there are still many occurances of web page.
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Joseph Dykstra 2015-03-26 10:20:31 -05:00
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docs/tutorial/debugging-browser-process.md → docs/tutorial/debugging-main-process.md
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# Debugging browser process
# Debugging the main process
The devtools of browser window can only debug the scripts of the web pages
(e.g. the renderer process), in order to provide a way to debug the scripts of
the browser side (e.g. the browser process), atom-shell has provided the
`--debug` and `--debug-brk` switches.
The devtools of browser window can only debug the renderer process scripts.
(I.e. the web pages.) In order to provide a way to debug the scripts of
the main process, atom-shell has provided the `--debug` and `--debug-brk`
switches.
## Command line switches
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## Use node-inspector for debugging
__Note:__ Atom Shell uses node v0.11.13, which currently doesn't work very well
with node-inspector, and the browser process would crash if you inspect the
with node-inspector, and the main process would crash if you inspect the
`process` object under node-inspector's console.
### 1. Start the [node-inspector][node-inspector] server

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```
There may be instances where one wants to respond to these events in the
browser process as well. The browser process however does not have a
main process as well. The main process however does not have a
`navigator` object and thus cannot detect these events directly. Using
Atom-shell's inter-process communication utilities, the events can be forwarded
to the browser process and handled as needed, as shown in the following example.
to the main process and handled as needed, as shown in the following example.
_main.js_

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@ -11,26 +11,18 @@ It doesn't mean atom-shell is a JavaScript binding to GUI libraries. Instead,
atom-shell uses web pages as its GUI, so you could also see it as a minimal
Chromium browser, controlled by JavaScript.
### The browser side
### The main process
If you have experience with Node.js web applications, you will know that there
are two types of JavaScript scripts: the server side scripts and the client side
scripts. Server-side JavaScript is that which runs on the Node.js
runtime, while client-side JavaScript runs inside the user's browser.
The main atom-shell process displays a GUI by showing web pages. We have
**scripts that run in the atom-shell runtime**, that create **scripts
that run in the web page**. We call them **main process scripts**,
and **renderer process scripts**.
In atom-shell we have similar concepts: Since atom-shell displays a GUI by
showing web pages, we have **scripts that run in the web page**, and also
**scripts run by the atom-shell runtime**, which creates those web pages.
Like Node.js, we call them **client scripts**, and **browser scripts**
(meaning the browser replaces the concept of the server here).
In atom-shell, we have provided the [ipc](../api/ipc-renderer.md) module for
communication from the main process to the renderer process, and the
[remote](../api/remote.md) module for easy RPC support.
In traditional Node.js applications, communication between server and
client is usually facilitated via web sockets. In atom-shell, we have provided
the [ipc](../api/ipc-renderer.md) module for browser to client
communication, and the [remote](../api/remote.md) module for easy RPC
support.
### Web page and Node.js
### The renderer process
Normal web pages are designed to not reach outside of the browser, which makes
them unsuitable for interacting with native systems. Atom-shell provides Node.js
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[nw.js](https://github.com/nwjs/nw.js).
But unlike nw.js, you cannot do native GUI related operations in web
pages. Instead you need to do them on the browser side by sending messages to
pages. Instead you need to do them on the main process by sending messages to
it, or using the easy [remote](../api/remote.md) module.
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The format of `package.json` is exactly the same as that of Node's modules, and
the script specified by the `main` field is the startup script of your app,
which will run on the browser side. An example of your `package.json` might look
which will run on the main process. An example of your `package.json` might look
like this:
```json