Is there any docs / tutorials on how to hook into electron for custom code?

[wardy484]

I'm trying to launch applications on the host machine with custom arguments, for example on windows I might want to launch cmd.exe /C ssh forge@some-ip, this seems achievable from the electron node process but I'm unsure it's possible to hook into it without forking the whole electron plugin?

[simonhamp]

@wardy484 can you add a link to the specific part of the Electron docs you're referring to?

[wardy484]

More a stack overflow example than an electron thing. If wanted to have a play and test out the example where they used child_process instead of open external. So I was more curious if there was a method for me to hook into the JS process and run custom code.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74814215/open-external-application-with-electron

[simonhamp]

Can't you do this directly from PHP using something like shell_exec?

[wardy484]

I don't think that will achieve the effect I'm after. So my intention is to be able to launch various applications, like a terminal window with an ssh session into a forge server, or a database connection in tables plus. I bit like how Laravel Herd does.

[simonhamp]

It should work...

Anything you can run from the terminal can be run via shell_exec. There's nothing special about NativePHP that would prevent this

[wardy484]

Ah yep you're right. Turns out I'm just terrible at windows shell commands 😅 my session seemed to hang when I posted my previous comment but that's just because I was launching the command prompt within the php session instead of starting a new window! Thanks for this, I've learnt something new today!

For some reason in my head the php instance running inside php native was some sort of containerised instance 🤷‍♂️ no idea why.