IPC Contracts and Static Guards: Keeping Main and Renderer in Sync
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Electron IPC is a common place where apps quietly rot: ad-hoc channels, mismatched payloads, and copy-pasted handlers that drift over time.
Uptime Watcher takes a different route. IPC contracts are treated as shared types, and we have scripts that fail the build when main and renderer drift apart.
This post explains how the IPC layer is structured, how static guards work, and how that shows up in the git history.
