ipcRenderer not receiving messages reliably on startup

Question

I have a problem with the ipcRenderer not receiving a message from ipcMain when my app is initializing.

I’m running a 3rd party component from which I want to receive some settings. Once the variables are stored in a state variable within my home component, I’m rendering a certain div.

When logging the events, I can see that main.js is receiving the request from the ipcRenderer and when printing the settings I can see the data. However my window is not receiving the answer. Sometimes when I relaunch the app it works but right now it is not reliable and I don’t really understand why.

Main.js:

ipcMain.on('getSettings', () => {
    console.log('getSettings was triggered.')
    console.log(settings.store.store)
    mainWindow.webContents.send('allSettings', settings.store.store)
  });

Home.js:

   import React, { useState, useEffect } from 'react';
   const { ipcRenderer } = electron;
    
    const Home = () => {
      const [settings, setSettings] = useState(null);
      const [startedUp, setStartedUp] = useState(false);
    
      useEffect(() => {
        ipcRenderer.on('allSettings', (event, data) => { loadSettings(data); });
    
        ipcRenderer.send('getSettings');
    
        return () => {
          ipcRenderer.removeAllListeners();
        };
      }, [])
    
      useEffect(() => {
        if (settings != null) {
          setStartedUp(true);
        }
      }, [settings])
    
      function loadSettings(data) {
        console.log('loading settings...')
        if (data != null) {
          setSettings(data);
          console.log('settings loaded: ', data)
        }
      }
    
     return (
        <>
          {startedUp ?
            <div className='content'>
              Content
            </div>
            :
            <div className='empty'>
              </div>}
        </>
      );
    };
    
    export default Home;

As stated above, sometimes when I relaunch the App a couple of times it works fine but most of the time it doesn't. I'm sure that I'm missing something fundamental here but I cant wrap my head around.

Hope somebody is able to help. Cheers!