const { app, autoUpdater, ipcMain } = require('electron'); const UPDATE_POLL_INTERVAL_MS = 60 * 60 * 1000; const INITIAL_UPDATE_DELAY_MS = 30 * 1000; function installUpdate() { // for some reason, quitAndInstall does not fire the // before-quit event, so we need to set the flag here. global.appQuitting = true; autoUpdater.quitAndInstall(); } function pollForUpdates() { try { autoUpdater.checkForUpdates(); } catch (e) { console.log('Couldn\'t check for update', e); } } module.exports = {}; module.exports.start = function startAutoUpdate(updateBaseUrl) { if (updateBaseUrl.slice(-1) !== '/') { updateBaseUrl = updateBaseUrl + '/'; } try { // For reasons best known to Squirrel, the way it checks for updates // is completely different between macOS and windows. On macOS, it // hits a URL that either gives it a 200 with some json or // 204 No Content. On windows it takes a base path and looks for // files under that path. if (process.platform === 'darwin') { // include the current version in the URL we hit. Electron doesn't add // it anywhere (apart from the User-Agent) so it's up to us. We could // (and previously did) just use the User-Agent, but this doesn't // rely on NSURLConnection setting the User-Agent to what we expect, // and also acts as a convenient cache-buster to ensure that when the // app updates it always gets a fresh value to avoid update-looping. autoUpdater.setFeedURL(`${updateBaseUrl}macos/?localVersion=${encodeURIComponent(app.getVersion())}`); } else if (process.platform === 'win32') { autoUpdater.setFeedURL(`${updateBaseUrl}win32/${process.arch}/`); } else { // Squirrel / electron only supports auto-update on these two platforms. // I'm not even going to try to guess which feed style they'd use if they // implemented it on Linux, or if it would be different again. console.log('Auto update not supported on this platform'); } // We check for updates ourselves rather than using 'updater' because we need to // do it in the main process (and we don't really need to check every 10 minutes: // every hour should be just fine for a desktop app) // However, we still let the main window listen for the update events. // We also wait a short time before checking for updates the first time because // of squirrel on windows and it taking a small amount of time to release a // lock file. setTimeout(pollForUpdates, INITIAL_UPDATE_DELAY_MS); setInterval(pollForUpdates, UPDATE_POLL_INTERVAL_MS); } catch (err) { // will fail if running in debug mode console.log('Couldn\'t enable update checking', err); } } ipcMain.on('install_update', installUpdate); ipcMain.on('checkForUpdates', pollForUpdates);