main-process

The main-process is a NodeJS process that runs Electron.

- main-process is created when the Electron application is launched
- main-process can create Windows using Apis from Electron.
- main-process spawns shared-process
- main-process and shared-process can communicate via ipc

Profiling the main process

``sh
killall electron &&
npx electron --wait src/profile.js
`

This will create a profile.cpuprofile` file, which can be loaded inside the chrome devtools performance panel.