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API	Processes	Description
Accelerator	Main	Define keyboard shortcuts.
app	Main	Control your application's event lifecycle.
autoUpdater	Main	Enable apps to automatically update themselves.
BrowserView		Create and control views.
BrowserWindow	Main	Create and control browser windows.
BrowserWindowProxy	Renderer	Manipulate the child browser window
ClientRequest	Main	Make HTTP/HTTPS requests.
clipboard	Main and Renderer	Perform copy and paste operations on the system clipboard.
CommandLine		Manipulate the command line arguments for your app that Chromium reads
Supported Command Line Switches		Command line switches supported by Electron.
contentTracing	Main	Collect tracing data from Chromium to find performance bottlenecks and slow operations.
contextBridge		Create a safe, bi-directional, synchronous bridge across isolated contexts
Cookies	Main	Query and modify a session's cookies.
crashReporter	Main and Renderer	Submit crash reports to a remote server.
Debugger	Main	An alternate transport for Chrome's remote debugging protocol.
desktopCapturer	Renderer	Access information about media sources that can be used to capture audio and video from the desktop using the navigator.mediaDevices.getUserMedia API.
dialog	Main	Display native system dialogs for opening and saving files, alerting, etc.
Dock		Control your app in the macOS dock
DownloadItem	Main	Control file downloads from remote sources.
Environment Variables	Main and Renderer	Control application configuration and behavior without changing code.
Chrome Extension Support		Note: Electron does not support arbitrary Chrome extensions from the store, and it is a non-goal of the Electron project to be perfectly compatible with Chrome's implementation of Extensions.
File Object	Renderer	Use the HTML5 File API to work natively with files on the filesystem.
Frameless Window	Main	Open a window without toolbars, borders, or other graphical "chrome".
globalShortcut	Main	Detect keyboard events when the application does not have keyboard focus.
inAppPurchase		In-app purchases on Mac App Store.
IncomingMessage	Main	Handle responses to HTTP/HTTPS requests.
ipcMain	Main	Communicate asynchronously from the main process to renderer processes.
ipcRenderer	Renderer	Communicate asynchronously from a renderer process to the main process.
Locales	Main	Locale values returned by app.getLocale().
Menu	Main	Create native application menus and context menus.
MenuItem	Main	Add items to native application menus and context menus.
MessageChannelMain
MessagePortMain
nativeImage	Main and Renderer	Create tray, dock, and application icons using PNG or JPG files.
nativeTheme		Read and respond to changes in Chromium's native color theme.
net	Main	Issue HTTP/HTTPS requests using Chromium's native networking library
netLog		Logging network events for a session.
Notification		Create OS desktop notifications
powerMonitor	Main	Monitor power state changes.
powerSaveBlocker	Main	Block the system from entering low-power (sleep) mode.
process	Main and Renderer	Extensions to process object.
protocol	Main	Register a custom protocol and intercept existing protocol requests.
remote	Renderer	Use main process modules from the renderer process.
sandbox Option		Create a browser window with a sandboxed renderer. With this option enabled, the renderer must communicate via IPC to the main process in order to access node APIs.
screen	Main and Renderer	Retrieve information about screen size, displays, cursor position, etc.
ServiceWorkers		Query and receive events from a sessions active service workers.
session	Main	Manage browser sessions, cookies, cache, proxy settings, etc.
shell	Main and Renderer	Manage files and URLs using their default applications.
Synopsis	Main and Renderer	How to use Node.js and Electron APIs.
systemPreferences	Main	Get system preferences.
TouchBar	Main	Create TouchBar layouts for native macOS applications
TouchBarButton	Main	Create a button in the touch bar for native macOS applications
TouchBarColorPicker	Main	Create a color picker in the touch bar for native macOS applications
TouchBarGroup	Main	Create a group in the touch bar for native macOS applications
TouchBarLabel	Main	Create a label in the touch bar for native macOS applications
TouchBarOtherItemsProxy		Instantiates a special "other items proxy", which nests TouchBar elements inherited from Chromium at the space indicated by the proxy. By default, this proxy is added to each TouchBar at the end of the input. For more information, see the AppKit docs on NSTouchBarItemIdentifierOtherItemsProxy Note: Only one instance of this class can be added per TouchBar.
TouchBarPopover	Main	Create a popover in the touch bar for native macOS applications
TouchBarScrubber	Main	Create a scrubber (a scrollable selector)
TouchBarSegmentedControl	Main	Create a segmented control (a button group) where one button has a selected state
TouchBarSlider	Main	Create a slider in the touch bar for native macOS applications
TouchBarSpacer	Main	Create a spacer between two items in the touch bar for native macOS applications
Tray	Main	Add icons and context menus to the system's notification area.
webContents	Main	Render and control web pages.
webFrame	Renderer	Customize the rendering of the current web page.
WebRequest	Main	Intercept and modify the contents of a request at various stages of its lifetime.
<webview> Tag		Display external web content in an isolated frame and process.
window.open Function	Renderer	Open a new window and load a URL.