electron/docs/api/process.md

process

Extensions to process object.

The process object is extended in Electron with following APIs:

Events

Event: 'loaded'

Emitted when Electron has loaded its internal initialization script and is beginning to load the web page or the main script.

It can be used by the preload script to add removed Node global symbols back to the global scope when node integration is turned off:

// preload.js
const _setImmediate = setImmediate
const _clearImmediate = clearImmediate
process.once('loaded', () => {
  global.setImmediate = _setImmediate
  global.clearImmediate = _clearImmediate
})

Properties

process.noAsar

Setting this to true can disable the support for asar archives in Node's built-in modules.

process.type

Current process's type, can be "browser" (i.e. main process) or "renderer".

process.versions.electron

Electron's version string.

process.versions.chrome

Chrome's version string.

process.resourcesPath

Path to the resources directory.

process.mas

For Mac App Store build, this property is true, for other builds it is undefined.

process.windowsStore

If the app is running as a Windows Store app (appx), this property is true, for otherwise it is undefined.

process.defaultApp

When app is started by being passed as parameter to the default app, this property is true in the main process, otherwise it is undefined.

Methods

The process object has the following method:

process.crash()

Causes the main thread of the current process crash.

process.hang()

Causes the main thread of the current process hang.

process.setFdLimit(maxDescriptors) macOS Linux

• maxDescriptors Integer

Sets the file descriptor soft limit to maxDescriptors or the OS hard limit, whichever is lower for the current process.

process.getProcessMemoryInfo()

Returns Object:

• workingSetSize Integer - The amount of memory currently pinned to actual physical RAM.
• peakWorkingSetSize Integer - The maximum amount of memory that has ever been pinned to actual physical RAM.
• privateBytes Integer - The amount of memory not shared by other processes, such as JS heap or HTML content.
• sharedBytes Integer - The amount of memory shared between processes, typically memory consumed by the Electron code itself

Returns an object giving memory usage statistics about the current process. Note that all statistics are reported in Kilobytes.

process.getSystemMemoryInfo()

Returns Object:

• total Integer - The total amount of physical memory in Kilobytes available to the system.
• free Integer - The total amount of memory not being used by applications or disk cache.
• swapTotal Integer - The total amount of swap memory in Kilobytes available to the system. Windows Linux
• swapFree Integer - The free amount of swap memory in Kilobytes available to the system. Windows Linux

Returns an object giving memory usage statistics about the entire system. Note that all statistics are reported in Kilobytes.