initial commit to better modularize frontend

Far from done, but this pretty much splits everything inside
`src/app/main.js` into separate files.

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/app/js/request.js b/src/app/js/request.js
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+++ b/src/app/js/request.js
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+const ipcRenderer = require("electron").ipcRenderer;
+
+// show a toast message if no Internet connection has been detected.
+if (! navigator.onLine) {
+	ipcRenderer.send("no-internet");
+}
+
+// invokes `requests.get()` from `src/modules/requests.js` through the
+// main process, and returns the output
+let request = async (...args) => {
+	return await ipcRenderer.invoke("request", ...args);
+}
+
+request.delete_cache = () => {
+	ipcRenderer.send("delete-request-cache");
+}
+
+module.exports = request;