Electron: Call renderer function from main

Question

I have some data in the localstorage that has to be deleted on app.quit(). But I see no way to do so from the main process.

Is there a way to call a

Answer 1

You might use BrowserWindow.webContents.executeJavaScript like so in your main process:

// will print "whoooooooh!" in the dev console
window.webContents.executeJavaScript('console.log("whoooooooh!")');

Although you might consider it a kinda messy/dirty approach, it works. And it does not require setting up anything in the renderer process which greatly simplified things for me.
If you just want to call a particular method it would probably be quicker to write this way.