Electron Application Menu Template

Why?

As far as I can tell, you cannot delete a menu item from existing application menu (You can add new ones though). You cannot change the click handling function either (You can change it, but it won't take effect).

So what could you do if you would like to delete an menu item or overwrite the click handling function? You need to build a new application menu from scratch. This project provide you with a template so that you can build an application menu quickly.

The template returned should generate application menu identical (almost) to the default one provided by an Electron app.

Install

yarn add electron-application-menu-template

Usage

import {newTemplate} from 'electron-application-menu-template';

const template = newTemplate();

// Optional: make some modifications to the template
const fileMenu = template.find(item => item.label === 'File')!;
(fileMenu.submenu! as MenuItemConstructorOptions[]).unshift(
  {
    label: 'Open',
    accelerator: 'CmdOrCtrl+O',
    async click() {
      // open a file here
    },
  },
  {
    type: 'separator',
  }
);

app.whenReady().then(() => {
  Menu.setApplicationMenu(Menu.buildFromTemplate(template));
});