Peter Scheler

JS enthusiast

Oct 17, 2016

Yes, you can.

Electron uses a main process and multiple render-processes. In the main process, you can write your backend logic, the event listeners, and your controllers. The render processes are windows. You can display anything you want within them.

The easiest way is to require your "server.js" in the main process.

Do you want to use Electron as service monitor or as a client too?

SP

Siddharth Parmar

Frontend Fanatic

Oct 17, 2016

Just as a service monitor. The server hosts a web page which can be accessed by any other device on the same network. You can check the link for its use case.

SJ

Shital Jumbad

Software Engineer

Jul 30, 2021

I have one follow-up question on that actually, were you also looking for keeping that process running in the background even after the app is closed? If yes, were you able to do that ? I have a use case where I want to keep that background process running in the background, I got this answers: stackoverflow.com/questions/45481216/how-to-run-a… Wanted to know if you have done something similar to that?

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