Can I mix 2 versions of electron in one project?











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Very new to electron I am wondering if I can use 1.4.16 for certain windows and 3.0.8 for the main app.



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I need the transparent window feature for some windows of my app under Linux. This is working until V1.4.16. I'd like to use 3.x for the rest, since it's a bit cumbersome to always have to search for old docs.










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  • As far as I know, it's not a supported or typical scenario. But there are options to achieve your goal if you don't mind doing some "plumbing". You could build your transparent window as a separate Electron application, and use sockets or web sockets, pipes, or any normal form of IPC to communicate between the transparent window and your main application. Locking yourself to an earlier version of Electron is not great though for lots of reasons and maybe rather investigate options for somehow achieving transparency in 3.x. Wish I could help with that but my main experience is on Windows OS.
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Very new to electron I am wondering if I can use 1.4.16 for certain windows and 3.0.8 for the main app.



Here's why:

I need the transparent window feature for some windows of my app under Linux. This is working until V1.4.16. I'd like to use 3.x for the rest, since it's a bit cumbersome to always have to search for old docs.










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  • As far as I know, it's not a supported or typical scenario. But there are options to achieve your goal if you don't mind doing some "plumbing". You could build your transparent window as a separate Electron application, and use sockets or web sockets, pipes, or any normal form of IPC to communicate between the transparent window and your main application. Locking yourself to an earlier version of Electron is not great though for lots of reasons and maybe rather investigate options for somehow achieving transparency in 3.x. Wish I could help with that but my main experience is on Windows OS.
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    Nov 13 at 20:26















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Very new to electron I am wondering if I can use 1.4.16 for certain windows and 3.0.8 for the main app.



Here's why:

I need the transparent window feature for some windows of my app under Linux. This is working until V1.4.16. I'd like to use 3.x for the rest, since it's a bit cumbersome to always have to search for old docs.










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Very new to electron I am wondering if I can use 1.4.16 for certain windows and 3.0.8 for the main app.



Here's why:

I need the transparent window feature for some windows of my app under Linux. This is working until V1.4.16. I'd like to use 3.x for the rest, since it's a bit cumbersome to always have to search for old docs.







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  • As far as I know, it's not a supported or typical scenario. But there are options to achieve your goal if you don't mind doing some "plumbing". You could build your transparent window as a separate Electron application, and use sockets or web sockets, pipes, or any normal form of IPC to communicate between the transparent window and your main application. Locking yourself to an earlier version of Electron is not great though for lots of reasons and maybe rather investigate options for somehow achieving transparency in 3.x. Wish I could help with that but my main experience is on Windows OS.
    – GrahamMc
    Nov 13 at 20:26




















  • As far as I know, it's not a supported or typical scenario. But there are options to achieve your goal if you don't mind doing some "plumbing". You could build your transparent window as a separate Electron application, and use sockets or web sockets, pipes, or any normal form of IPC to communicate between the transparent window and your main application. Locking yourself to an earlier version of Electron is not great though for lots of reasons and maybe rather investigate options for somehow achieving transparency in 3.x. Wish I could help with that but my main experience is on Windows OS.
    – GrahamMc
    Nov 13 at 20:26


















As far as I know, it's not a supported or typical scenario. But there are options to achieve your goal if you don't mind doing some "plumbing". You could build your transparent window as a separate Electron application, and use sockets or web sockets, pipes, or any normal form of IPC to communicate between the transparent window and your main application. Locking yourself to an earlier version of Electron is not great though for lots of reasons and maybe rather investigate options for somehow achieving transparency in 3.x. Wish I could help with that but my main experience is on Windows OS.
– GrahamMc
Nov 13 at 20:26






As far as I know, it's not a supported or typical scenario. But there are options to achieve your goal if you don't mind doing some "plumbing". You could build your transparent window as a separate Electron application, and use sockets or web sockets, pipes, or any normal form of IPC to communicate between the transparent window and your main application. Locking yourself to an earlier version of Electron is not great though for lots of reasons and maybe rather investigate options for somehow achieving transparency in 3.x. Wish I could help with that but my main experience is on Windows OS.
– GrahamMc
Nov 13 at 20:26



















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