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The `remote` module provides a simple way to do inter-process communication
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(IPC) between the renderer process (web page) and the main process.
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-In Electron, only GUI-related modules are available in the renderer process.
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-Without the `remote` module, users who want to call a main process API in
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-the renderer process will have to explicitly send inter-process messages
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-to the main process. With the `remote` module, you can invoke methods of the
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-main process object without explicitly sending inter-process messages, similar
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-to Java's [RMI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_remote_method_invocation).
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+In Electron, GUI-related modules (such as `dialog`, `menu` etc.) are only available in the main process, not in the renderer process. In order to use them from the render process, the ipc module is necessary to send inter-process messages to the main process. With the `remote` module, you can invoke methods of the main process object without explicitly sending inter-process messages, similar to Java's [RMI](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_remote_method_invocation).
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An example of creating a browser window from a renderer process:
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Antoine Pairet