Electron Projects

Handling application updates

At this point, you should have at least one application with a tracking ID in your Nucleus account.

In this chapter, you have an app called My App whose current version is 0.0.1, as shown in the following screenshot:

Your application can track version changes and execute certain pieces of code each time an update happens.

The API is in the following format:

Nucleus.onUpdate = version => {    // do something with the vesion}

For the sake of simplicity, let's raise a standard JavaScript alert message on each version update:

1. Update the main.js file according to the following code:

const { app, BrowserWindow } = require('electron'); ...