added version update check

dev-app-update.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+owner: fuatu
+repo: markdown-editor
+provider: github
+updaterCacheDirName: markdown-editor-updater

index.js

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
-const { app, BrowserWindow, Menu } = require('electron');
+const { app, BrowserWindow, Menu, shell } = require('electron');
 const { autoUpdater } = require('electron-updater');
 const menu = require('./menu');
+const log = require('electron-log');
 
 let window;
 
@@ -13,7 +14,35 @@ app.on('ready', () => {
  }
  });
  window.loadFile('index.html');
- autoUpdater.checkForUpdatesAndNotify();
+ // autoUpdater.checkForUpdatesAndNotify();
+ log.info("Checking update... on app ready");
+ autoUpdater.autoDownload=false;
+ autoUpdater.checkForUpdates();
 });
 
-Menu.setApplicationMenu(menu);
+Menu.setApplicationMenu(menu);
+
+autoUpdater.on('update-available', (event) => {
+ var update_url = "https://github.com/fuatu/markdown-editor/releases/download/v" + event.version + "/" + event.path;
+ const dialogOpts = {
+ type: 'info',
+ buttons: ['Update', 'Later'],
+ title: 'Application Update',
+ message: event.releaseName,
+ detail: 'New version available\n' + event.path
+ }
+
+
+ log.info("Trying an update inside. update-available");
+ dialog.showMessageBox(dialogOpts).then((returnValue) => {
+ if (returnValue.response === 0) {
+ log.info("opening browser for downloading!");
+ shell.openExternal(update_url);
+ }
+ })
+});
+
+autoUpdater.on('error', message => {
+ log.error('There was a problem updating the application index.js')
+ //log.error(message)
+});

menu.js

@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ const {
  ipcMain, 
  BrowserWindow,
  globalShortcut,
- dialog 
+ dialog, 
 } = require('electron');
+const { autoUpdater } = require('electron-updater');
 const fs = require('fs');
+const log = require('electron-log');
 
 app.on('ready', () => {
  globalShortcut.register('CommandOrControl+S', () => {
@@ -90,6 +92,14 @@ const template = [
  click() {
  saveFile();
  }
+ },
+ {
+ label: 'Check Updates',
+ click() {
+ log.info("Checking for update by user trigger from menu")
+ autoUpdater.autoDownload=false;
+ autoUpdater.checkForUpdates();
+ }
  }
  ]
  },
@@ -156,3 +166,4 @@ if (process.env.DEBUG) {
 const menu = Menu.buildFromTemplate(template);
 
 module.exports = menu;
+

package.json

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 {
  "name": "markdown-editor",
- "version": "1.0.1",
- "description": "A simple markdown editor",
+ "version": "1.0.0",
+ "description": "A simple markdown editor. v1.1.0",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
  "start": "DEBUG=true electron .",
@@ -24,7 +24,13 @@
  "electron-builder": "^22.7.0"
  },
  "dependencies": {
+ "electron-log": "^4.2.2",
  "electron-updater": "^4.3.1",
  "simplemde": "^1.11.2"
+ },
+ "extendInfo": {
+ "NSAppTransportSecurity": {
+ "NSAllowsArbitraryLoads": true
+ }
  }
 }