How to publish a vue-electron release to github using this plugin?

Helo friends,

I have an electron application that uses autoUpdater, but I don’t know how to release …

I have this in the background.js:

  const server = 'https://cinecoqui.chrismichael.now.sh'
  const feed = `${server}/update/${process.platform}/${app.getVersion()}`

  autoUpdater.setFeedURL(feed);

  setInterval(() => {
    autoUpdater.checkForUpdates()
  }, 60000);

  autoUpdater.on('update-downloaded', (event, releaseNotes, releaseName) => {
    const dialogOpts = {
      type: 'info',
      buttons: ['Restart', 'Later'],
      title: 'Application Update',
      message: process.platform === 'win32' ? releaseNotes : releaseName,
      detail: 'A new version has been downloaded. Restart the application to apply the updates.'
    }
  
    dialog.showMessageBox(dialogOpts, (response) => {
      if (response === 0) autoUpdater.quitAndInstall()
    })
  })

  autoUpdater.on('error', message => {
    console.error('There was a problem updating the application')
    console.error(message)
  })

When I write the

 npm run electron:build

command it generates what is the dist_electron folder, next to the latest.yml file that have this:

version: 1.1.0
files:
  - url: cinecoqui-Setup-1.1.0.exe
    sha512: DNQh9JA/Ex2dNij3ZYNtKPXs1j9L+cHUFZR6xg2aSJkU6KglEAe6XBJMtc6UBtJIHaUXuAaZPrVmnBivJwEzrA==
    size: 43692738
path: cinecoqui-Setup-1.1.0.exe
sha512: DNQh9JA/Ex2dNij3ZYNtKPXs1j9L+cHUFZR6xg2aSJkU6KglEAe6XBJMtc6UBtJIHaUXuAaZPrVmnBivJwEzrA==
releaseDate: '2019-09-26T15:06:02.912Z'

Some help I will appreciate it

[Christilut]

Try this page: https://www.electron.build/configuration/publish

I use this in my vue.config.js:

          publish: [
            {
              provider: "github",
              owner: "Christilut",
              repo: "myrepo",
              releaseType: 'draft'
            }
          ]

And run the publish command vue-cli-service electron:build -p always with the GH_TOKEN prefixed, eg: GH_TOKEN=123 npm run publish

Took me a bit to figure all this out, the information is there just spread out.

[ChrisMichaelPerezSantiago]

Helo @Christilut ,

Thank you very much for your input. I achieved what I wanted. I must mention is that the configuration of the vue.config.js file:

 "publish": [
      {
        "provider": "github",
        "owner": "ChrisMichaelPerezSantiago",
        "repo": "cinecoqui",
        "releaseType": "draft"
      }
  ],

It showed me an error, Invalid options in vue.config.js:

"publish" is not allowed.

To fix it, I took the configuration and pasted it into the package.json.

Then I define the script of the publication:

  "gh-publish": "vue-cli-service electron: build -p always"

And in the line command I wrote the following:

npm run gh-publish GH_TOKEN

c@Chris MINGW64 ~/Desktop/cinecoqui (master)
$ npm run gh-publish GH_TOKEN

> cinecoqui@1.1.0 gh-publish C:\Users\c\Desktop\cinecoqui
> vue-cli-service electron:build -p always "GH_TOKEN"

 INFO  Bundling render process:

\  Building modern bundle for production...

 DONE  Compiled successfully in 4870ms                                                                       11:14:24 AM

  File                                      Size             Gzipped

  dist_electron\bundled\js\chunk-vendors    474.95 KiB       130.95 KiB
  .e63000b6.js
  dist_electron\bundled\js\app.2547ac53.    109.93 KiB       29.40 KiB
  js
  dist_electron\bundled\css\app.a26b00bd    44.08 KiB        9.28 KiB
  .css

  Images and other types of assets omitted.

 DONE  Build complete. The dist_electron\bundled directory is ready to be deployed.
 INFO  Check out deployment instructions at https://cli.vuejs.org/guide/deployment.html

|  Bundling main process...

 DONE  Compiled successfully in 3065ms                                                                       11:14:28 AM

  File                                   Size              Gzipped

  dist_electron\bundled\background.js    161.28 KiB        50.06 KiB

  Images and other types of assets omitted.

 INFO  Building app with electron-builder:
  • electron-builder  version=21.2.0 os=10.0.18362
  • description is missed in the package.json  appPackageFile=C:\Users\c\Desktop\cinecoqui\dist_electron\bundled\package.json
  • author is missed in the package.json  appPackageFile=C:\Users\c\Desktop\cinecoqui\dist_electron\bundled\package.json
  • writing effective config  file=dist_electron\builder-effective-config.yaml
  • packaging       platform=win32 arch=x64 electron=6.0.7 appOutDir=dist_electron\win-unpacked
  • default Electron icon is used  reason=application icon is not set
  • building        target=nsis file=dist_electron\cinecoqui Setup 1.1.0.exe archs=x64 oneClick=true perMachine=false
  • building block map  blockMapFile=dist_electron\cinecoqui Setup 1.1.0.exe.blockmap
  • publishing      publisher=Github (owner: ChrisMichaelPerezSantiago, project: cinecoqui, version: 1.1.0)
  • uploading       file=cinecoqui-Setup-1.1.0.exe.blockmap provider=GitHub
  • uploading       file=cinecoqui-Setup-1.1.0.exe provider=GitHub
  • creating GitHub release  reason=release doesn't exist tag=v1.1.0 version=1.1.0
    [====================] 100% 0.0s | cinecoqui-Setup-1.1.0.exe to GitHub
 DONE  Build complete!

💯 Now, in github in the releases section we will see our draft with the files.