How to persist data in an Electron app?

Question

I\'ve been scouring the Electron documentation to try and figure out how to persist data in an Electron app. For example, in iOS or OS X, you could use NSUserDefaults to store u

Answer 1

Electron views are built with Webkit which gives you access to the web based localstorage api. Good for simple and easy settings storage.

If you need something more powerful or need storage access from the main script, you can use one of the numerous node based storage modules. Personally I like lowdb.

With most node storage modules, you will need to provide a file location. Try:

var app = require('app');
app.getPath('userData');