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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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ipc (renderer)
The ipc module provides a few methods so you can send synchronous and
asynchronous messages to the main process, and also receive messages sent from
main process. If you want to make use of modules of main process from renderer
process, you might consider using the remote module.
See ipc (main process) for examples.
ipc.send(channel[, args...])
Send args.. to the renderer via channel in asynchronous message, the main
process can handle it by listening to the channel event of ipc module.
ipc.sendSync(channel[, args...])
Send args.. to the renderer via channel in synchronous message, and returns
the result sent from main process. The main process can handle it by listening to
the channel event of ipc module, and returns by setting event.returnValue.
Note: Usually developers should never use this API, since sending synchronous message would block the whole renderer process.
ipc.sendToHost(channel[, args...])
Like ipc.send but the message will be sent to the host page instead of the
main process.
This is mainly used by the page in <webview> to communicate with host page.