I am not sure I am doing this quite right. My end goal is to send a post request from a lambda function to my electron app and create a system notification. Locally I have been able to do it from post man, but when I install the app (on linux) It doesn't work, now I am not sure where I am supposed to point my request to, in development I pointed it too. http://localhost:3000/notify what happens when you install the app. How would I send a post request to the app, eventually I want to build user accounts, so I will need to send requests to each separate user based on the lambda logic.
I am using express with electron, is there another way to handle post requests.
Here is my code so far in my main.js file
"use strict";
const { app, BrowserWindow } = require("electron");
const { Notification } = require("electron");
const express = require("express");
const bodyParser = require("body-parser");
function createWindow() {
const win = new BrowserWindow({
width: 800,
height: 600,
webPreferences: {
nodeIntegration: true,
},
});
win.loadFile("index.html");
win.webContents.openDevTools();
}
app.whenReady().then(createWindow);
app.on("window-all-closed", () => {
if (process.platform !== "darwin") {
app.quit();
}
});
app.on("activate", () => {
if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
createWindow();
}
});
// Create a new instance of express
const appE = express();
// Tell express to use the body-parser middleware and to not parse extended bodies
appE.use(bodyParser.json());
// Route that receives a POST request to /sms
appE.post("/notify", function (req, res) {
const body = req.body;
console.log(body);
res.set("Content-Type", "text/plain");
function showNotification() {
const notification = {
title: "Basic Notification",
body: `You sent: ${body.message} to Express`,
};
new Notification(notification).show();
}
app.whenReady().then(createWindow).then(showNotification);
res.send(`You sent: ${body.message} to Express`);
});
// Tell our app to listen on port 3000
appE.listen(3000, function (err) {
if (err) {
throw err;
}
console.log("Server started on port 3000");
});
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