Installation and Future Updates

[nickstew]

Need to figure out how to make installation packages & how all the awesome apps handle auto updates.

[jonfen]

@nickstew have you tried any of these yet? I also read on electron-updater that

This project is in maintenance only mode. It is recommended that you use the electron-packager and electron-builder projects to generate complete installable versions of your applications and use either the OS specific stores or some other mechanism for distributing your installers.

https://www.christianengvall.se/electron-packager-tutorial/
https://www.christianengvall.se/electron-windows-installer/
https://www.christianengvall.se/dmg-installer-electron-app/

[nickstew]

Found a good list of tools and resources related to electron at awesome-electron. One of the packages in that list was electron-gh-releases and looks like it allows us to use github to host our release packages and have the auto-updater use the repo to figure out if it needs to update or not.