String-based channels, no type safety, and manual synchronization between processes create maintenance problems as applications grow. Typos in channel names and mismatched arguments are caught only at runtime.
In this article, we cover: current state of Electron IPC, and how it can be improved with a contract-first approach on top of Protobuf.
If you’re building desktop applications with Electron and bump into these limitations of Electron IPC, take a look at the suggested approach in <a href="https://teamdev.com/mobrowser/blog/what-is-wrong-with-electron-ipc-and-how-to-fix-it/" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">this article</a>.


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Electron IPC suffers from string-based channels, lack of type safety, and manual process synchronization, causing runtime errors and maintenance headaches as apps scale. A contract-first approach using Protobuf is proposed as a solution to enforce type safety and reduce channel name typos and argument mismatches.

Electron IPC has scaling issues.