Application is not starting after adding electron-updater package

After cloning this repo, I have made two changes to use electron-updater: Install electron-updater - npm install electron-updater --save and added below line to main.ts: import { autoUpdater } from 'electron-updater';

After this when I to do npm start, I get below errors:

node_modules/electron-updater/node_modules/builder-util-runtime/out/httpExecutor.d.ts(2,27): error TS2305: Module '"http"' has no exported member 'OutgoingHttpHeaders'.
node_modules/electron-updater/out/AppUpdater.d.ts(4,10): error TS2305: Module '"http"' has no exported member 'OutgoingHttpHeaders'.
node_modules/electron-updater/out/Provider.d.ts(3,10): error TS2305: Module '"http"' has no exported member 'OutgoingHttpHeaders'.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! angular-electron@2.6.0 build:electron:main: `tsc main.ts --outDir dist && copyfiles package.json dist && cd dist && npm install --prod && cd ..`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the angular-electron@2.6.0 build:electron:main script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/harshveer/.npm/_logs/2018-02-13T09_30_46_752Z-debug.log
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 2
npm ERR! angular-electron@2.6.0 electron:serve: `npm run build:electron:main && electron ./dist --serve`
npm ERR! Exit status 2
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the angular-electron@2.6.0 electron:serve script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/harshveer/.npm/_logs/2018-02-13T09_30_46_777Z-debug.log
ERROR: "electron:serve" exited with 2.
npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! angular-electron@2.6.0 start: `npm-run-all --parallel webpack:watch electron:serve`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the angular-electron@2.6.0 start script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /Users/harshveer/.npm/_logs/2018-02-13T09_30_46_902Z-debug.log

Any idea why this might be?

[cjackson234]

In the above code sample, you’re not using the ES6 import. Switching to this does solve the problem for me.

from the auto update docs:

Or if you don’t use ES6: const autoUpdater = require(“electron-updater”).autoUpdater

[seopei]

I am using electron-updater (v2.20.1), electron-builder (v20.0.6) and electron-publisher-s3 (v20.0.5) for publishing the app to amazon S3.

my electron-builder.json:

{
  "productName": "myProductName",
  "copyright": "Copyright by asdf",
  "appId": "my.app.id",
  "directories": {
    "app": "dist",
    "output": "app-builds"
  },
  "mac": {
    "icon": "dist/assets/icons/favicon",
    "category": "public.app-category.business",
    "target": [
      "zip",
      "dmg"
    ]
  },
  "win": {
    "icon": "dist/assets/icons/favicon",
    "target": [
      {
        "target": "nsis",
        "arch": [
          "x64",
          "ia32"
        ]
      },
      {
        "target": "portable",
        "arch": [
          "x64",
          "ia32"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "publish": {
    "provider": "s3",
    "bucket": "placeholder_bucket_name",
    "region": "eu-west-1",
    "path": "updates"
  }
}

and in my main.ts:

const {autoUpdater} = require('electron-updater');
...
autoUpdater.checkForUpdatesAndNotify();

But maybe you should try this PR #129 with the newest version of all dependencies. I hope this will help 😃