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Electron: From Beginner to Pro: Learn to Build Cross Platform Desktop Applications using Github's Electron
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Electron: From Beginner to Pro: Learn to Build Cross Platform Desktop Applications using Github's Electron

by Chris Griffith, Leif Wells
November 2017
Beginner
274 pages
6h 17m
English
Apress
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© Chris Griffith, Leif Wells 2017

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

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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