NAnateb2022·Oct 13, 2024Submission
Electron-builder: build an Electron app which auto updates out of the box
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electron-builder
TypeScript2016–2024
electron-userland / electron-builder
electron-builder
A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app with “auto update” support out of the box
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What it is
A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app with “auto update” support out of the box
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| Period | Start (UTC) | End (exclusive, UTC) | Mentions | Submissions | Comments |
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
What Hacker News says
8 sourcesUnrelated to this post, but you suggested (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37381390) I use your company hydraulic.dev for my electron build. I ultimately gave up on it, then someone from node-gyp comment on an issue I opened about it, and provided the solution:
https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues...
Just wanted to let you know in case it's a gotcha you might not be aware of that might help you out if you run into similar problems with some of your customer builds.
In What every software developer must know about Unicode in 2023It's an Electron app AND blockchain related; hackernews's two favorite things to hate. I don't expect much love from this crowd. Heh.
It's certainly either something I'm doing wrong, or a big in the software I'm using to automate signing, notification and stapling.
Here's the issue I opened on the software I'm using to automate:
https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues... that issue kinks to the PR that adds the automation.
It's a non-trivial thing to test, since it involves so many secrets and the notarization step can take over an hour, so I don't expect anyone here to actually want to look into it.
My original comment really was just venting my frustration, not a cry for help (but I might be crying soon if I cant get to the bottom of this!).
In Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live?Thanks for taking a look at this!
Maybe the update check is not completing in time and hitting a 45 second timeout similar to [1]?
[1]: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues...
In Upscayl – Free and Open Source AI Image Upscaler for Linux, macOS and WindowsMan, that sucks. I just read through the discussion on that and can see where the pain points are in using Squirrel.Windows [0]. Hopefully they eventually deal with that. I don't use Windows much, so outside of making sure Squirrel.Windows is working correctly, I don't have much of an opinion on whether or not it provides a good UX to end-users (and it sounds like it doesn't, unfortunately).
[0]: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues...
In Android Studio 3.0 Release Notesand let's not even talk about NPM which is apparently dead and "you should use yarn" https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues...
In JavaScript Fatigue: Realities of Our IndustryWe're planning on doing an AppImage for Linux since we're using Electron Builder (https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder). Just haven't had time for it yet!
In Exponent – Build native apps in JS that work across both iOS and AndroidHave you tried electron-builder? https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder
In Electron 1.0 is here