added several dev improvements

src/constants/globalEvents.ts

@@ -10,4 +10,5 @@ export const globalEvents = {
   showSettings: "showSettings",
   storeChanged: "storeChanged",
   error: "error",
+  log: "log",
 };

src/features/logger.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+import { IpcMain, IpcRenderer } from "electron";
+import { globalEvents } from "../constants/globalEvents";
+
+export class Logger {
+  /**
+   *
+   * @param ipcRenderer renderer IPC client so we can send messages to the main thread
+   */
+  constructor(private ipcRenderer: IpcRenderer) {}
+
+  /**
+   * Subscribe to watch for logs from the IPC client
+   * @param ipcMain main thread IPC client so we can subscribe to events
+   */
+  public static watch(ipcMain: IpcMain) {
+    ipcMain.on(globalEvents.log, (event, content, object) => {
+      console.log(content, JSON.stringify(object, null, 2));
+    });
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Log content to STDOut
+   * @param content
+   * @param object js(on) object that will be prettyPrinted
+   */
+  public log(content: string, object: object = {}) {
+    if (this.ipcRenderer) {
+      this.ipcRenderer.send(globalEvents.log, { content, object });
+    } else {
+      console.log(`${content} \n ${JSON.stringify(object, null, 2)}`);
+    }
+  }
+}

src/main.ts

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import {
 import { settings } from "./constants/settings";
 import { addTray, refreshTray } from "./scripts/tray";
 import { MediaInfo } from "./models/mediaInfo";
+import { Logger } from "./features/logger";
 const tidalUrl = "https://listen.tidal.com";
 
 initialize();
@@ -220,3 +221,5 @@ ipcMain.on(globalEvents.storeChanged, () => {
 ipcMain.on(globalEvents.error, (event) => {
   console.log(event);
 });
+
+Logger.watch(ipcMain);

src/pages/settings/preload.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import remote, { app } from "@electron/remote";
+import { app } from "@electron/remote";
 import { ipcRenderer, shell } from "electron";
 import fs from "fs";
 import { globalEvents } from "../../constants/globalEvents";
@@ -107,8 +107,8 @@ function hide() {
  * Restart tidal-hifi after changes
  */
 function restart() {
-  remote.app.relaunch();
-  remote.app.exit();
+  app.relaunch();
+  app.exit();
 }
 
 /**