Robotjs: This module is not context aware and requires allowRendererProcessReuse= false

Created on 20 May 2020 · 6Comments · Source: octalmage/robotjs

Expected Behavior

There sshould be no need to set app.allowRendererProcessReuse=false. Note that as of Electron 9 the default flipped to true.

Current Behavior

One has to manually set allowRendererProcessReuse to false, and you get this warning:

[1] (node:82611) Electron: Loading non-context-aware native module in renderer: '/Users/saghul/work/jitsi/jitsi-meet-electron/node_modules/robotjs/build/Release/robotjs.node'. This is deprecated, see https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18397.

Possible Solution

Looks like https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/18397 may have the answers.

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Your Environment

RobotJS version: 0.6.0
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Source

saghul

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Most helpful comment

Any update to this? As the option has been deprecated.

DanielMcAssey on 31 May 2020

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All 6 comments

Any update to this? As the option has been deprecated.

DanielMcAssey on 31 May 2020

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Man why nobody is answering this?

ivanjeremic on 7 Jul 2020

Also interested in having this fixed. What can we do to help?

iwiedenm on 28 Jul 2020

I'm also having this issue now. Fixed it for now with app.allowRendererProcessReuse=false but in Electron 11 that won't be possible.

Fossil01 on 2 Sep 2020

A possible workaround I'm using is to load this module in the main process and if I need to use it from the renderer process, I just use Electron's IPC calls.