Make a link from Electron open in browser

My code snippet clue accordingly to the depreciations in Electron version ^12.0.0

const win = new BrowserWindow();
win.webContents.setWindowOpenHandler(({ url }) => {
    // config.fileProtocol is my custom file protocol
    if (url.startsWith(config.fileProtocol)) {
        return { action: 'allow' };
    }
    // open url in a browser and prevent default
    shell.openExternal(url);
    return { action: 'deny' };
});

EDIT: @Arjun Kava's answer is much better these days.

This answer is quite old and assumes you have jQuery.

const shell = require('electron').shell;
  
// assuming $ is jQuery
$(document).on('click', 'a[href^="http"]', function(event) {
    event.preventDefault();
    shell.openExternal(this.href);
});

mainWindow.webContents.on('new-window', function(e, url) {
  e.preventDefault();
  require('electron').shell.openExternal(url);
});

Requires that you use target="_blank" on your anchor tags.

You can simply use :

require("shell").openExternal("http://www.google.com")