Electron Desktop App Development · Lesson

Power and Hardware Monitoring

Tap into native power and hardware events with Electron's powerMonitor module to build responsive, battery-aware desktop apps.

Apps That Sense Their Environment

Great native apps react to power and hardware state: pausing work on battery, saving before sleep, resuming on wake.

Electron's powerMonitor in the main process emits system power events and reports battery state.

const { powerMonitor } = require('electron');
app.whenReady().then(() => {
  console.log(powerMonitor.getSystemIdleState(60));
});