vite-plugin-electron: importing electron in a WebWorker doesn't work

Doing import { ipcRenderer} from 'electron' (or any other renderer electron module) crashes the app with reason: "crashed" and exitCode: 11.

Details

I’m trying to migrate from Webpack and the same code works there.
nodeIntegrationInWorker is set to true.
Exit code 11 usually means Segmentation fault.

One thing that is being logged in the Terminal when the app crashes:

[20890:0831/172750.464535:ERROR:shared_image_manager.cc(267)] SharedImageManager::ProduceOverlay: Trying to Produce a Overlay representation from a non-existent mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464559:ERROR:skia_output_device_buffer_queue.cc(354)] Invalid mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464564:ERROR:shared_image_manager.cc(267)] SharedImageManager::ProduceOverlay: Trying to Produce a Overlay representation from a non-existent mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464569:ERROR:skia_output_device_buffer_queue.cc(354)] Invalid mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464572:ERROR:shared_image_manager.cc(267)] SharedImageManager::ProduceOverlay: Trying to Produce a Overlay representation from a non-existent mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464578:ERROR:skia_output_device_buffer_queue.cc(354)] Invalid mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464580:ERROR:shared_image_manager.cc(267)] SharedImageManager::ProduceOverlay: Trying to Produce a Overlay representation from a non-existent mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464584:ERROR:skia_output_device_buffer_queue.cc(354)] Invalid mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464601:ERROR:shared_image_manager.cc(267)] SharedImageManager::ProduceOverlay: Trying to Produce a Overlay representation from a non-existent mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464606:ERROR:skia_output_device_buffer_queue.cc(354)] Invalid mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464609:ERROR:shared_image_manager.cc(267)] SharedImageManager::ProduceOverlay: Trying to Produce a Overlay representation from a non-existent mailbox.
[20890:0831/172750.464612:ERROR:skia_output_device_buffer_queue.cc(354)] Invalid mailbox.

Another thing:

Error sending from webFrameMain:  Error: Render frame was disposed before WebFrameMain could be accessed
    at n._sendInternal (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:165:629)
    at b._sendInternal (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:161:2573)
    at node:electron/js2c/browser_init:193:729
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at Object.invokeInWebContents (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:193:477)
    at b.executeJavaScript (node:electron/js2c/browser_init:161:3267)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 2 years ago
Comments: 23 (22 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

type: "module" will be supported in v0.9.3, coming soon. 🚚

caoxiemeihao on Sep 1, 2022

Awesome! Thanks for all the work you put into this!

astoilkov on Sep 11, 2022

Another idea: You can throw an error if someone tries to access an ipcRenderer property (using a Proxy) and explain the issue. This will be very helpful to other users.

astoilkov on Sep 8, 2022

Good idea! I will fix it in next version. 🚚

caoxiemeihao on Sep 8, 2022

Done. Here is the repo: https://github.com/astoilkov/electron-vite-worker-issue.

The important part is in renderer/main.ts:

document.body.addEventListener('click', () => {
  new Worker(new URL('./worker.ts', import.meta.url), {
    type: 'module'
  })
})

Clicking on the “hello” text will run the code and the BrowserWindow will crash. You can open DevTools before you click the “hello” text so you can see DevTools shows a message as well.

astoilkov on Sep 6, 2022

@Jazcash 👋 This project is just for my personal interest, I have not tested many cases, such as web worder. By the way, Vite behaves very differently during vite serve andvite build, so I run into really tricky issues a lot of the time.

The web worder will be imported by Vite as a separate file during development, and will be correctly loaded by Electron-Renderer as http. During a Vite build, all files will be built into on bundle file, this difference may be the main cause of the BUG 🐞.

caoxiemeihao on Sep 4, 2022

Yep, I will do it on Monday.

astoilkov on Sep 3, 2022