This repo contains the bare minimum code to have an auto-updating Electron app using electron-updater with releases stored on GitHub.

NOTE: If you want to run through this whole process, you will need to fork this repo on GitHub and replace all instances of iffy with your GitHub username before doing the following steps.

1. First, install necessary dependencies with:

    npm install

2. Generate a GitHub access token by going to https://github.com/settings/tokens/new. The access token should have the repo scope/permission. Once you have the token, assign it to an environment variable (on macOS/linux):

    export GH_TOKEN="<YOUR_TOKEN_HERE>"

3. Publish with the publish.sh script:

    ./publish.sh

4. Release the release on GitHub by going to https://github.com/iffy/electron-updater-example/releases, editing the release and clicking "Publish release."

5. Download and install the app from https://github.com/iffy/electron-updater-example/releases.

6. Update the version in package.json

7. Do steps 3 and 4 again.

8. Open the installed version of the app and see that it updates itself.