Automatic Port Selection and Secured Communication (#1038)

Adds dynamic OS-selected socket port handling and secured Electron/.NET communication.

The dotnet-first startup flow now generates the auth token on the .NET side and passes it to Electron through an environment variable. Electron reports the selected socket port through a temporary startup-info file, avoiding any dependency on parsing Electron console output.

Also avoids logging backend startup parameters because they include the auth token.
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Florian Rappl
2026-05-09 17:03:32 +02:00
committed by GitHub
parent 1e8b02648a
commit 11f71feeb8
21 changed files with 533 additions and 128 deletions

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@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
namespace ElectronNET.API
{
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using ElectronNET.AspNet;
@@ -10,6 +11,7 @@
using ElectronNET.Runtime.Helpers;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting;
using Microsoft.Extensions.DependencyInjection;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Hosting;
/// <summary>
/// Provides extension methods for <see cref="IWebHostBuilder"/> to enable Electron.NET
@@ -66,23 +68,26 @@
// work as expected, see issue #952
Environment.SetEnvironmentVariable("ELECTRON_RUN_AS_NODE", null);
var webPort = PortHelper.GetFreePort(ElectronNetRuntime.AspNetWebPort ?? ElectronNetRuntime.DefaultWebPort);
ElectronNetRuntime.AspNetWebPort = webPort;
var webPort = ElectronNetRuntime.AspNetWebPort ?? 0;
// check for the content folder if its exists in base director otherwise no need to include
// It was used before because we are publishing the project which copies everything to bin folder and contentroot wwwroot was folder there.
// now we have implemented the live reload if app is run using /watch then we need to use the default project path.
// For port 0 (dynamic port assignment), Kestrel requires binding to specific IP (127.0.0.1) not localhost
var host = webPort == 0 ? "127.0.0.1" : "localhost";
if (Directory.Exists($"{AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory}\\wwwroot"))
{
builder = builder.UseContentRoot(AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory)
.UseUrls("http://localhost:" + webPort);
.UseUrls($"http://{host}:{webPort}");
}
else
{
builder = builder.UseUrls("http://localhost:" + webPort);
builder = builder.UseUrls($"http://{host}:{webPort}");
}
builder = builder.ConfigureServices(services =>
builder = builder.ConfigureServices((context, services) =>
{
services.AddTransient<IStartupFilter, ServerReadyStartupFilter>();
services.AddSingleton<AspNetLifetimeAdapter>();