How to detect the changes of system clipboard with nodejs

Question

I want to detect the clipboard in my electron app. Know someone who can answer?

Answer 1

It was the issue because Electron doesn't support the change event of the clipboard. https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/2280

But thankfully, sudhakar3697 developed a node module node-clipboard-event which supports clipboard change event for Node.js/Electron.js/NW.js.

Using it, you can listen to the event in this way.

const clipboardListener = require('clipboard-event');

// To start listening
clipboardListener.startListening();

clipboardListener.on('change', () => {
    console.log('Clipboard changed');
});

// To stop listening
clipboardListener.stopListening();