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@@ -228,6 +228,23 @@ channel with a renderer process using [`MessagePort`][]s. An Electron app can
always prefer the [UtilityProcess][] API over Node.js [`child_process.fork`][] API when
there is need to fork a child process from the main process.
## Process-specific module aliases (TypeScript)
Electron's npm package also exports subpaths that contain a subset of
Electron's TypeScript type definitions.
- `electron/main` includes types for all main process modules.
- `electron/renderer` includes types for all renderer process modules.
- `electron/common` includes types for modules that can run in main and renderer processes.
These aliases have no impact on runtime, but can be used for typechecking
and autocomplete.
```js title="Usage example"
const { app } = require('electron/main')
const { shell } = require('electron/common')
```
[window-mdn]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window
[`MessagePort`]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/MessagePort
[`child_process.fork`]: https://nodejs.org/dist/latest-v16.x/docs/api/child_process.html#child_processforkmodulepath-args-options