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How to register an protocol/deep links to my Electron App?

Error launching app: "Unable to find Electron app at..."

I'm using electron-react-boilerplate and I'm not able to create a handler that opens my electron app in development mode.

I've read the Deep Links and Protocol documentation and I still couldn't get it to work!

Following the Deep Links documentation I was able to open the app after it was packaged into an .exe, but I can't debug and catch this event and work on the front-end.

In development mode this error appears whenever I access the handler:

Error screenshot

Solution

  • I managed to solve it by adding on main.js:

    if (!app.isDefaultProtocolClient('electron-handler')) {  
  app.setAsDefaultProtocolClient('electron-handler')
}

    and this on package.json:

    "build": {
  ...
  "protocols": {
    "name": "my electron handler",
    "schemes": [
      "electron-handler"
    ]
  },
}