This module makes easy to publish updates created by electron-builder. Now SSH, github, ftp, Amazon S3 and local release transports are supported. You can enable update feature in your application using electron-simple-updater

Install with npm:

npm install --save-dev electron-simple-publisher

1. For windows build set the target value to squirrel in package.json:

...
"build": {
  ...
  "win": {
    "target": "squirrel"
  }
},
...

2. Make a distributive package using electron-builder

3. Set options: You can specify all option through command line arguments, but it's easier to store the config in publisher.js or publisher.json in the project root. Here is an example for publishing through SSH:

{
  "transport": {
    "module": "ssh",
    "host": "example.com",
    "username": "user",
    "password": "user's password",
    "remotePath": "/www/example.com/updates",
    "remoteUrl": "http://example.com/updates",
  },
  "fields": { // Additional fields which will be added to updates.json
    "readme": "The first version"
  },
  // If you've already set package.json:updater.url you can skip this option:
  "updatesJsonUrl": "http://example.com/updates/update.json"
}

4. Run a publish command:

$ node_modules/.bin/publish - will publish the latest build for the current platform

Usage: publish [command] [options] [arguments]

Commands (default is publish):
  publish [configFile] [buildId1 Id2 …|all] Publish a new build(s).
  replace [configFile] [buildId]            Replace the current build.
  remove  [configFile] [buildId1 Id2 …]     Remove one or more builds.
  list    [configFile]                      Show builds on a hosting.

BuildId has a following format: [platform]-[arch]-[channel]-v[version]
  You can specify only a part of buildId, like linux-x64, defaults:
    platform: process.platform
    arch:     process.arch
    channel:  package.json:updater.channel or prod
    version:  package.json:version

Options:
  configFile         File with json ext, defaults to ./publisher.js
  -t or --transport  Name of node module which implements Transport interface.
  --transport-{name} Specify the {name} transport option
  -p or --path       Path to distributive files (default dist).
  -d or --debug      Show debug information
  --field-{name}     Set updates.json:{buildId}.{name} field
  -h or --help       Show this message

Upload releases using SSH protocol. This transport uses ssh2 internally so you can check its documentation for all transport options.

Upload updates to github releases. You can use this transport even if you don't want to share your source code. For this purposes you just need to create a public repository which will store your releases.

Upload releases using FTP protocol. This transport uses node-ftp internally so you can check its documentation for all transport options.

Upload releases to S3 storage.

This transport allows to create file structure which can be uploaded to a server manually.

• electron-builder - A complete solution to package and build an Electron app
• electron-simple-updater - Simple way to enable update for the electron application

Licensed under MIT.