electron-builder

A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app with “auto update” support out of the box (by electron-userland)

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  • Agent in a desktop app
    2 projects | dev.to | 25 May 2025
    Electron React Boilerplate(ERB) is a pretty easy way to start building a desktop app in no time. It uses electron-builder under the hood to power build and publish step of the application and for building the frontend it uses Webpack. Just clone the repo and you're ready to go. For this setup let's use the name agent-desktop-app.
  • Electron-builder: build an Electron app which auto updates out of the box
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Oct 2024
  • From a Day to 17 Minutes: How We’ve Dealt with Slow Build Times
    2 projects | dev.to | 8 Mar 2024
    The last step for each platform's build process is to upload the app to our GitHub releases repository. We automated this step from the beginning, but when we started creating builds for the new M1 chip Macs, we had to add a manual step. This involved merging files needed for the auto-updater to work with the M1 builds.
  • Is macOS’s new XProtect behavioural security preparing to go live?
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Sep 2023
    https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues... that issue kinks to the PR that adds the automation.

    It's a non-trivial thing to test, since it involves so many secrets and the notarization step can take over an hour, so I don't expect anyone here to actually want to look into it.

    My original comment really was just venting my frustration, not a cry for help (but I might be crying soon if I can get to the bottom of this!).

  • Uninstall the NightOwl macOS app now
    5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Aug 2023
    > The ‘autoupdater’ does three things,

    >

    > - check the app for updates (using Sparkle)

    > - report any crashes (using Sentry)

    > - start a local HTTP proxy on port 40701 (this can be changed using the configuration json file in the app bundle).

    >

    > The latter is of course, not to be expected of any app on the machine, especially not one that just claims to be an auto updater.

    Well, yes. And no.

    For example, electron-builder [^0], a popular framework used for Electron app packaging and auto-updates, uses a local update server on Mac [^1] to add a more sane system backed by a more insane system, Squirrel.

    [^0]: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder

    [^1]: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/blob/m...

  • Looking for self-hosted auto update solution, working with GitLab.
    1 project | /r/electronjs | 10 Jul 2023
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  • No keyboard? No problem. You can now use Bazecor without it! 😎
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    You can read about this issue here: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/issues/7114
  • Spring Boot + Electron, a case study
    4 projects | dev.to | 15 May 2023
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  • Electron - Not allowed to load local resource
    3 projects | /r/codehunter | 24 Apr 2023
    Install electron and electron-builder
  • Progress/Testing of code free I.F. engine
    2 projects | /r/interactivefiction | 25 Mar 2023
    I believe Visual Studio Code uses Electron and posts releases on a regular basis. Maybe check their A quick Google search for "electron build github release" turns up "Electron Builder" https://www.electron.build/ I don't really know though; I've never used Electron.
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