electron-release-manager

This handles auto-updates for in-app updates and also handles downloads from the main site. Releases are stored in s3 and can be accessed via the release manager's UI.

Quick Start

Environment Variables

• APP_NAME: Name of your Electron app
• BUCKET: Name of the s3 bucket you're storing your relases in
• AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID: Your AWS access key
• AWS_SECRETACCESS_KEY_ID: Your AWS secret key

$ git clone git@github.com:yhat/electron-release-manager.git && cd electron-release-manager
$ export APP_NAME="...name of your electron app..."
$ export BUCKET="...name of the bucket you're storing releases..."
$ export AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID="...your aws access key..."
$ export AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY="...your aws secret key..."
$ coffee app.coffee

Uploading to S3

Directory Structure

We use a simple directory structure for managing releases and versions in Rodeo. In the s3 bucket, we create a directory for each release (i.e. 1.0.0, 1.0.1, etc.). Within each directory we put our builds for each platform with the following format:

Rodeo-v${VERSION}-${ARCH}.${FILE_TYPE}

So a release looks like this:

s3cmd ls s3://rodeo-releases/1.2.1/*
2015-12-29 22:50  50273604   s3://rodeo-releases/1.2.1/Rodeo-v1.2.1-darwin_64.dmg
2015-12-29 22:51  50434981   s3://rodeo-releases/1.2.1/Rodeo-v1.2.1-darwin_64.zip
2016-01-13 22:29 720712573   s3://rodeo-releases/1.2.1/Rodeo-v1.2.1-linux_32.zip
2015-12-29 23:20 709662401   s3://rodeo-releases/1.2.1/Rodeo-v1.2.1-linux_64.zip
2015-12-29 22:57 175719662   s3://rodeo-releases/1.2.1/Rodeo-v1.2.1-windows_32.exe
2015-12-29 22:52 176098549   s3://rodeo-releases/1.2.1/Rodeo-v1.2.1-windows_32.zip
2015-12-29 23:11 359885017   s3://rodeo-releases/1.2.1/Rodeo-v1.2.1-windows_64.exe
2015-12-29 23:01 361052890   s3://rodeo-releases/1.2.1/Rodeo-v1.2.1-windows_64.zip

File Types

Users downloading your product for the first time will probably want the idiot-proof installers (.dmg for Mac, .exe for Windows). However, for auto-updates with Squirrel, you'll need to provide .zip files for each platform. In the example above, you can see that we have both .dmg/.exe and .zip files in the release directory for each platform.

Uploading Your Release

You can use any tool to upload your releases to your s3 bucket. We recommend s3cmd. It's simple, easy, and has been around a long time. Remember to upload each file corresponding to the directory structure outlined above.

echo "uploading OSX"
VERSION="1.2.1"
if [ -f build/darwin/x64/Rodeo-darwin-x64/Rodeo.dmg ]; then
    s3cmd -P put build/darwin/x64/Rodeo-darwin-x64/Rodeo.dmg "s3://rodeo-releases/${VERSION}/Rodeo-v${VERSION}-darwin_64.dmg"
fi
if [ -f build/darwin/x64/Rodeo-darwin-x64/Rodeo.zip ]; then
    s3cmd -P put build/darwin/x64/Rodeo-darwin-x64/Rodeo.zip "s3://rodeo-releases/${VERSION}/Rodeo-v${VERSION}-darwin_64.zip"
fi

echo "uploading Windows 32-bit"
if [ -f build/win32/all/Rodeo-win32-ia32.zip ]; then
    s3cmd -P put build/win32/all/Rodeo-win32-ia32.zip "s3://rodeo-releases/${VERSION}/Rodeo-v${VERSION}-windows_32.zip"
fi

if [ -f build/win32/all/Rodeo-win32-ia32/Rodeo\ Setup.exe ]; then
    s3cmd -P put build/win32/all/Rodeo-win32-ia32/Rodeo\ Setup.exe "s3://rodeo-releases/${VERSION}/Rodeo-v${VERSION}-windows_32.exe"
fi
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Other Suggestions

• https://github.com/loopline-systems/electron-builder
• https://github.com/maxogden/electron-packager