AutoUpdater

This update system is used in @CrazyVinc/Led-Controller

Features

• Get remote version from JSON
• Download the update.
• Extractor with the function to specify what to extract
• Run npm install with the default extractor
• Automatically download the correct extractor.
• Define your own extractor

Example to run the default updater and run npm install

autoupdater -dest=./ -zip=./temp/update.zip -extractfile=installer.json -npm

To use the built-in extractor, You can define what to extract:

{
   "extract": {
       "files": [
           "/index.js",
           "/installer.json",
           "/package.json"
       ],
       "directories": [
           "/src"
       ]
   }
}

Recommend use:

1. Use a launcher to run your main program.
2. Let your program scan for updates in the background.
3. If a update is found, install the update and the extractor.
4. Let your main program communicate to your launcher that there is a update ready to install.
   • Send a JSON object with the path to the update and the path to the extractor
   • Send a prepared commandline string.
5. Let the launcher stop your program and start the update-extractor (with child process spawn).
6. Start your main program as soon the update-extractor is closed.

You can use the @CrazyVinc/Led-Controller Launcher and change it according to your own use