Example?

I’m having hard time implementing auto-updates in one of my electron app. I have set it up nuts on heroku successfully and it’s working fine but I don’t know how to implement this in my electron app’s autoupdater api. Adding this in my main.js does nothing-

var app = require('app');
var os = require('os');
var autoUpdater = require('electron').autoUpdater;

var platform = os.platform() + '_' + os.arch();  // usually returns darwin_64
var version = app.getVersion();

autoUpdater.setFeedURL('http://zulipdesktop.herokuapp.com/update/'+platform+'/'+version);

It would be awesome if you someone can point me to a working example.

[GitFlip]

I figured out how to enable and view logging in heroku for when it launches nuts. Turns out there is an issue with connecting to GitHub, although I’m not sure what just yet. The repo I’m connecting to is private. Did either of you run into this issue:

2018-04-25T20:36:28.127988+00:00 heroku[web.1]: Starting process with command `npm start`
2018-04-25T20:36:31.564677+00:00 app[web.1]: 
2018-04-25T20:36:31.564699+00:00 app[web.1]: > nuts-serve@3.1.1 start /app
2018-04-25T20:36:31.564701+00:00 app[web.1]: > node bin/web.js
2018-04-25T20:36:31.564703+00:00 app[web.1]: 
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072761+00:00 app[web.1]: GitHubError: Not Found
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072782+00:00 app[web.1]:     at GitHub.onResponse (/app/node_modules/octocat/lib/index.js:89:15)
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072784+00:00 app[web.1]:     at GitHub.wrapper [as onResponse] (/app/node_modules/octocat/node_modules/lodash/index.js:3095:19)
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072786+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Request._callback (/app/node_modules/octocat/lib/index.js:126:31)
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072788+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Request.self.callback (/app/node_modules/octocat/node_modules/request/request.js:198:22)
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072790+00:00 app[web.1]:     at emitTwo (events.js:126:13)
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072791+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Request.emit (events.js:214:7)
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072793+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Request.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/octocat/node_modules/request/request.js:1063:14)
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072795+00:00 app[web.1]:     at emitOne (events.js:121:20)
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072796+00:00 app[web.1]:     at Request.emit (events.js:211:7)
2018-04-25T20:36:34.072798+00:00 app[web.1]:     at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/app/node_modules/octocat/node_modules/request/request.js:1009:12)
2018-04-25T20:36:34.126307+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
2018-04-25T20:36:34.126851+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! errno 1
2018-04-25T20:36:34.131733+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! nuts-serve@3.1.1 start: `node bin/web.js`
2018-04-25T20:36:34.132003+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! Exit status 1
2018-04-25T20:36:34.132810+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! 
2018-04-25T20:36:34.133093+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! Failed at the nuts-serve@3.1.1 start script.
2018-04-25T20:36:34.133349+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
2018-04-25T20:36:34.175037+00:00 app[web.1]: 
2018-04-25T20:36:34.175455+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
2018-04-25T20:36:34.175714+00:00 app[web.1]: npm ERR!     /app/.npm/_logs/2018-04-25T20_36_34_135Z-debug.log

Update: Fixed this issue by changing GITHUB_REPO from the full url path, to just username/repo-name.

To answer my own question… if you navigate to the URL provided by heroku, it should download the latest release of your electron app. It should not say “Application Error”

[HaNdTriX]

Try adding:

// Log whats happening
autoUpdater.on('error', err => console.error(err))
autoUpdater.on('checking-for-update', () => console.log('checking-for-update'))
autoUpdater.on('update-available', () => console.log('update-available'))
autoUpdater.on('update-not-available', () => console.log('update-not-available'))
autoUpdater.on('update-downloaded', () => console.log('update-downloaded'))

// Ask the user if update is available
autoUpdater.on('update-downloaded', (event, releaseNotes, releaseName) => {
  dialog.showMessageBox(window, {
    type: 'question',
    buttons: ['Update', 'Cancel'],
    defaultId: 0,
    message: `Version ${releaseName} is available, do you want to install it now?`,
    title: 'Update available'
  }, response => {
    if (response === 0) {
      autoUpdater.quitAndInstall()
    }
  })
})

// Trigger autoUpdater
autoUpdater.checkForUpdates()

http://electron.atom.io/docs/api/auto-updater/