fixes

src/preload/VencordDesktopNative.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-import { app, ipcRenderer } from "electron";
+import { ipcRenderer } from "electron";
 import type { Settings } from "shared/settings";
 import type { LiteralUnion } from "type-fest";
 import { IpcEvents } from "../shared/IpcEvents";
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ function sendSync<T = any>(event: IpcEvents, ...args: any[]) {
 export const VencordDesktopNative = {
     app: {
         relaunch: () => invoke<void>(IpcEvents.RELAUNCH),
-        getVersion: () => app.getVersion()
+        getVersion: () => sendSync<void>(IpcEvents.GET_VERSION)
     },
     fileManager: {
         showItemInFolder: (path: string) => invoke<void>(IpcEvents.SHOW_ITEM_IN_FOLDER, path),

src/preload/index.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 import { contextBridge, ipcRenderer, webFrame } from "electron";
+import { readFileSync, watch } from "fs";
 import { IpcEvents } from "../shared/IpcEvents";
 import { VencordDesktopNative } from "./VencordDesktopNative";
 
@@ -8,4 +9,28 @@ require(ipcRenderer.sendSync(IpcEvents.GET_VENCORD_PRELOAD_FILE));
 
 webFrame.executeJavaScript(ipcRenderer.sendSync(IpcEvents.GET_VENCORD_RENDERER_SCRIPT));
 webFrame.executeJavaScript(ipcRenderer.sendSync(IpcEvents.GET_RENDERER_SCRIPT));
-ipcRenderer.invoke(IpcEvents.GET_RENDERER_STYLES).then(s => webFrame.insertCSS(s));
+
+// #region css
+const rendererCss = ipcRenderer.sendSync(IpcEvents.GET_RENDERER_CSS_FILE);
+
+const style = document.createElement("style");
+style.id = "vcd-css-core";
+style.textContent = readFileSync(rendererCss, "utf-8");
+
+if (document.readyState === "complete") {
+    document.documentElement.appendChild(style);
+} else {
+    document.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded", () => document.documentElement.appendChild(style), {
+        once: true
+    });
+}
+
+if (IS_DEV) {
+    // persistent means keep process running if watcher is the only thing still running
+    // which we obviously don't want
+    watch(rendererCss, { persistent: false }, () => {
+        document.getElementById("vcd-css-core")!.textContent = readFileSync(rendererCss, "utf-8");
+    });
+}
+
+// #endregion