Is there a way to disable alert dialogs when errors occur in Electron App, or better yet disable ALL dialogs?

Dialogs are useless in headless mode (granted electron is not intended to be a headless app) and just get things stuck.

I'm not necessarily looking for a flag 'disable_dialogs'. Perhaps I could override one method in the main process so that dialogs don't open?

Is there a way to disable alert dialogs when errors occur in Electron App, or better yet disable ALL dialogs?

Dialogs are useless in headless mode (granted electron is not intended to be a headless app) and just get things stuck.

I'm not necessarily looking for a flag 'disable_dialogs'. Perhaps I could override one method in the main process so that dialogs don't open?

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• 1 discuss.atom.io/t/… – Adrian Lynch Commented Feb 25, 2016 at 7:20
• Yep, but no explanation on how to override the method to log to the console instead of the default behavior. – LeMoussel Commented Feb 26, 2016 at 7:34

1 Answer 1

Someone has left the following on that discussion thread.

Disable error dialogs by overriding

const electron = require('electron');
const dialog = electron.dialog;

// Disable error dialogs by overriding
dialog.showErrorBox = function(title, content) {
    console.log(`${title}\n${content}`);
};