Now that we have successfully built an app that we can distribute, we need to begin to think long term. How do we inform the user that a new feature has been added to your awesome app (or worse, you had to fix a bug)? Electron includes an auto-update module that we can leverage to assist in the tasks needing to check for an update, and properly install them. This process can be broken down into three primary tasks: the base code we need to include in our Electron application, the modifications ...
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Chris Griffith and Leif Wells, Electron: From Beginner to Pro, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-2826-5_16
16. Auto Updating Your Application
Chris Griffith1 and Leif Wells2
(1)San Diego, California, USA
(2)Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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