Show apps on top of the lock screen

Question

I'm building an app using Electron. And I really want to recreate what UWP apps can do. UWP apps can get shown on top of the lock screen. How can I achieve that using Electron/NodeJS?

I tried to do this, but it didn't work:

const mainWindow = electron.remote.getCurrentWindow();
if(isWindows10){
  try{
    lockSystem();
  }catch{
    //return an error
  }
}
mainWindow.restore();
mainWindow.focus();
mainWindow.setKiosk(true);

And if you're wondering about the fact that UWP apps can get rendered on top of the lock screen, yes they indeed can get rendered on top of the lock screen. You can try to take an exam on exam.net on a windows 10 device, and choose the restricted mode. This will result in chrome opening a pop-up window that asks you to run a UWP app that will lock the device and get rendered on top of the lock screen.

https://www.electronjs.org/docs/tutorial/windows-store-guide - This won't help, as the app doesn't gain access to UWP APIs/features.

EDIT: https://github.com/felixrieseberg/electron-uwp-background - Never mind, it is possible to access those features. But I can't figure out how to do it. Any idea?

Show apps on top of the lock screen

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