ElectronAutoUpdateClient

If you use MongoDB Stitch for your application, you can simply login with this application to manage all of your applications. i.e, change version information which causes applications using ElectronAutoUpdate to fire events if it's outdated. This should be used in pair with resources from ElectronAutoUpdateAPI

This repository was created along side the following repositories to streamline Electron application updates.

ElectronAutoUpdateAPI

Quick start a MongoDB REST API for your applications. This API can be used to trigger automatic updates and more

ElectronAutoUpdate

Use this NPM module inside your Electron application with a ElectronAutoUpdateAPI API to fetch application version information, download links, or more.

Before you start

• Sign up at MongoDB if you have not already.
• Create a Stitch application and turn on the provider for e-mail/password
• Create an account on the website to login with
• Ensure desired IP addresses are white-listed on your cluster

When creating my cluster, I chose to use applications.updates for my applications. Inserted documents should follow the Interface Application

interface Application {
  name: string
  version: string
  download: string
  additionalInfo?: {}
}

Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/Syncthetic/ElectronAutoUpdateClient

Install dependancies cd ElectronAutoUpdateClient && npm i

Start the application npm run electron:local

Login with the proper creds to add or edit your applications