Listen for keyboard events and mouse movement outside of Electron app

Question

I\'ve been getting into a few Electron projects and I am trying to figure out how you could listen for any keypresses or and track mouse movement when the app is in the backgrou

Answer 1

This is outside of the realm of normal use-cases for an electron application. In order to do this you would need to develop a native module that calls into the corresponding native functions of the operating system.

For example on windows: C++ Win32 keyboard events

Making native addons for node: https://nodejs.org/api/addons.html

FYI, Native addons are very hard.