Add logging

README.md

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 This repo contains the bare minimum code to have an auto-updating Electron app using [`electron-updater`](https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/tree/master/packages/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

main.js

@@ -2,7 +2,18 @@
 // See LICENSE for details.
 
 const {app, BrowserWindow, Menu, protocol} = require('electron');
-var electron = require('electron');
+const log = require('electron-log');
+const {autoUpdater} = require("electron-updater");
+
+//-------------------------------------------------------------------
+// Logging
+//
+// This logging setup is not required for auto-updates to work,
+// but it sure makes debugging easier :)
+//-------------------------------------------------------------------
+autoUpdater.logger = log;
+autoUpdater.logger.transports.file.level = 'info';
+log.info('App starting...');
 
 //-------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Define the menu
@@ -69,10 +80,6 @@ app.on('activate', () => {
 //-------------------------------------------------------------------
 // Auto updates
 //-------------------------------------------------------------------
-var {autoUpdater} = require("electron-updater");
-let UPDATE_DOWNLOADED = false;
-let update_window;
-
 autoUpdater.on('checking-for-update', (ev) => {
   console.log('Checking for update...');
 })
@@ -95,4 +102,4 @@ autoUpdater.on('update-downloaded', (ev, releaseNotes, releaseName, releaseDate,
     autoUpdater.quitAndInstall();  
   }, 5000)
 })
-autoUpdater.checkForUpdates()
+autoUpdater.checkForUpdates()

package.json

@@ -4,9 +4,12 @@
   "main": "main.js",
   "description": "electron-updater example project",
   "author": "Matt Haggard",
-  "devDependencies": {
+  "dependencies": {
     "electron": "^1.4.15",
-    "electron-builder": "^12.3.1",
+    "electron-builder": "^12.3.1"
+  },
+  "dependencies": {
+    "electron-log": "^1.3.0",
     "electron-updater": "^1.4.2"
   },
   "build": {

publish.sh

@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@ if [ -z "$GH_TOKEN" ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
+# This will build, package and upload the app to GitHub.
 build --win --mac -p always