Build

I am building on a Linux machine.

Linux target: AppImage

• Specify this in quasar.config.js
• Just build it.

Windows target: nsis

• Specify this in quasar.config.js
• The window installer program. We need to specify main entrance file, add "main": "src-electron/electron-main.js" in package.json.

Mac target: dmg

• Specify this in quasar.config.js
• dmg is better than pkg since we don't need to worry about the uninstaller.

Use the docker image sickcodes/Docker-OSX, we can run macos on linux. Use that to build dmg.

Publish

1. Get github personal access token
2. Set the personal access token as environmental variable
3. Add "repository": "https://github.com/ResearchHelper/auto-update-test" in package.json
4. quasar build -m electron -T [win32|linux|darwin] -P always

See build.sh.

• The repository must be public.
• The product name must not contain space, otherwise we need to manually change it to dash -.

Auto Update

1. Check for updates in electron-main.js
2. Use mainWindow.webContents.send to send information to renderer
3. Catch update infos from main process by ipcRenderer.on.
4. Expose API from electron-preload.js to the Mainworld.
5. Use the API in .vue files.

• See the files electron-main.js, electron-preload.js and App.vue.