fix: use webview-tag in production instead of iframe to avoid possible ipc-issues with normal frames

Signed-off-by: Roman <ixrock@gmail.com>

src/common/cluster-store.ts

@@ -209,13 +209,17 @@ export class ClusterStore extends BaseStore<ClusterStoreModel> {
 
 export const clusterStore = ClusterStore.getInstance<ClusterStore>();
 
+export function isClusterView(): boolean {
+  return !!getHostedClusterId(); // note: process.isMainFrame cannot be used here since it's "true" for webview-tags
+}
+
 export function getClusterIdFromHost(hostname: string): ClusterId {
-  const subDomains = hostname.split(":")[0].split(".");
+  return hostname.match(/^(.*?)\.localhost/)?.[1]
-  return subDomains.slice(-2)[0]; // e.g host == "%clusterId.localhost:45345"
 }
 
 export function getClusterFrameUrl(clusterId: ClusterId) {
-  return `//${clusterId}.${location.host}`;
+  const { protocol, host } = location
+  return `${protocol}//${clusterId}.${host}`
 }
 
 export function getHostedClusterId() {

src/main/window-manager.ts

@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ export class WindowManager {
         nodeIntegration: true,
         nodeIntegrationInSubFrames: true,
         enableRemoteModule: true,
+        webviewTag: true,
       },
     });
     this.windowState.manage(this.mainView);

src/renderer/bootstrap.tsx

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ import { render } from "react-dom";
 import { isMac } from "../common/vars";
 import { userStore } from "../common/user-store";
 import { workspaceStore } from "../common/workspace-store";
-import { clusterStore } from "../common/cluster-store";
+import { clusterStore, isClusterView } from "../common/cluster-store";
 import { i18nStore } from "./i18n";
 import { themeStore } from "./theme.store";
 import { App } from "./components/app";
@@ -35,4 +35,4 @@ export async function bootstrap(App: AppComponent) {
 }
 
 // run
-bootstrap(process.isMainFrame ? LensApp : App);
+bootstrap(isClusterView() ? App : LensApp);

src/renderer/components/cluster-manager/cluster-view.route.ts

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ import { reaction } from "mobx";
 import { ipcRenderer } from "electron";
 import { matchPath, RouteProps } from "react-router";
 import { buildURL, navigation } from "../../navigation";
-import { clusterStore } from "../../../common/cluster-store";
+import { clusterStore, isClusterView } from "../../../common/cluster-store";
 
 export interface IClusterViewRouteParams {
   clusterId: string;
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ export function getMatchedCluster() {
 }
 
 if (ipcRenderer) {
-  if (process.isMainFrame) {
+  if (isClusterView()) {
     // Keep track of active cluster-id for handling IPC/menus/etc.
     reaction(() => getMatchedClusterId(), clusterId => {
       ipcRenderer.send("cluster-view:current-id", clusterId);

src/renderer/components/cluster-manager/lens-views.ts

@@ -1,12 +1,16 @@
+import { WebviewTag } from "electron";
 import { observable, when } from "mobx";
 import { ClusterId, clusterStore, getClusterFrameUrl } from "../../../common/cluster-store";
-import { getMatchedCluster } from "./cluster-view.route"
 import logger from "../../../main/logger";
+import { isDebugging, isDevelopment, isProduction } from "../../../common/vars";
+import { getMatchedCluster } from "./cluster-view.route";
+
+export type LensViewElem = HTMLIFrameElement | WebviewTag;
 
 export interface LensView {
   isLoaded?: boolean
   clusterId: ClusterId;
-  view: HTMLIFrameElement
+  view: LensViewElem;
 }
 
 export const lensViews = observable.map<ClusterId, LensView>();
@@ -20,31 +24,35 @@ export async function initView(clusterId: ClusterId) {
     return;
   }
   logger.info(`[LENS-VIEW]: init dashboard, clusterId=${clusterId}`)
+  let view: LensViewElem;
   const cluster = clusterStore.getById(clusterId);
   const parentElem = document.getElementById("lens-views");
-  const iframe = document.createElement("iframe");
+  const frameUrl = getClusterFrameUrl(clusterId);
-  iframe.name = cluster.contextName;
+  const onLoad = () => {
-  iframe.setAttribute("src", getClusterFrameUrl(clusterId))
+    logger.info(`[LENS-VIEW]: loaded from ${view.src}`)
-  iframe.addEventListener("load", () => {
-    logger.info(`[LENS-VIEW]: loaded from ${iframe.src}`)
     lensViews.get(clusterId).isLoaded = true;
-  }, { once: true });
+  };
-  lensViews.set(clusterId, { clusterId, view: iframe });
+  if (isDevelopment || isDebugging) {
-  parentElem.appendChild(iframe);
+    view = document.createElement("iframe");
-  await autoCleanOnRemove(clusterId, iframe);
+    view.addEventListener("load", onLoad);
+    view.name = cluster.contextName;
+  } else if (isProduction) {
+    view = document.createElement("webview");
+    view.addEventListener("did-frame-finish-load", onLoad);
+    view.setAttribute("nodeintegration", "true");
+    view.setAttribute("enableremotemodule", "true");
+  }
+  view.setAttribute("src", frameUrl);
+  parentElem.appendChild(view);
+  lensViews.set(clusterId, { clusterId, view });
+  await autoCleanOnRemove(clusterId, view);
 }
 
-export async function autoCleanOnRemove(clusterId: ClusterId, iframe: HTMLIFrameElement) {
+export async function autoCleanOnRemove(clusterId: ClusterId, view: LensViewElem) {
   await when(() => !clusterStore.getById(clusterId));
   logger.info(`[LENS-VIEW]: remove dashboard, clusterId=${clusterId}`)
-  lensViews.delete(clusterId)
+  lensViews.delete(clusterId);
-
+  view.parentElement.removeChild(view);
-  // Keep frame in DOM to avoid possible bugs when same cluster re-created after being removed.
-  // In that case for some reasons `webFrame.routingId` returns some previous frameId (usage in app.tsx)
-  // Issue: https://github.com/lensapp/lens/issues/811
-  iframe.dataset.meta = `${iframe.name} was removed at ${new Date().toLocaleString()}`;
-  iframe.removeAttribute("src")
-  iframe.removeAttribute("name")
 }
 
 export function refreshViews() {