electron-context-menu

Context menu for your Electron app

Electron doesn't have a built-in context menu. You're supposed to handle that yourself. But it's both tedious and hard to get right. This module gives you a nice extensible context menu with items like Cut/Copy/Paste for text, Save Image for images, and Copy Link for links. It also adds an Inspect Element menu item when in development to quickly view items in the inspector like in Chrome.

You can use this module directly in both the main and renderer process.

Install

$ npm install --save electron-context-menu

Usage

const {app, BrowserWindow} = require('electron');

require('electron-context-menu')({
	prepend: (params, browserWindow) => [{
		label: 'Rainbow',
		// only show it when right-clicking images
		visible: params.mediaType === 'image'
	}]
});

let win;

app.on('ready', () => {
	win = new BrowserWindow();
});

API

contextMenu([options])

options

window

Type: BrowserWindow WebView

Window or WebView to add the context menu to.

When not specified, the context menu will be added to all existing and new windows.

prepend

Type: Function

Should return an array of MenuItem's to be prepended to the context menu. The first argument is this params object. The second argument is the BrowserWindow the context menu was requested for.

append

Type: Function

Should return an array of MenuItem's to be appended to the context menu. The first argument is this params object. The second argument is the BrowserWindow the context menu was requested for.

showInspectElement

Type: boolean
Default: Only in development

Force enable or disable the Inspect Element menu item.

labels

Type: Object
Default: {}

Overwrite labels for the default menu items. Useful for i18n.

Format:

labels: {
	cut: 'Configured Cut',
	copy: 'Configured Copy',
	paste: 'Configured Paste',
	save: 'Configured Save Image',
	copyLink: 'Configured Copy Link',
	inspect: 'Configured Inspect'
}

electron-debug - Adds useful debug features to your Electron app
electron-config - Simple config handling for your Electron app or module

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