zckevin / electron-builder

A complete solution to package and build a ready for distribution Electron app with “auto update” support out of the box

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use @zckevin/electron-builder

# install
npm install --save-dev @zckevin/electron-builder

# install other dependencies from original electron-builder
npm install --save-dev builder-util-runtime dmg-builder builder-util

use electron-updater

Install

# install
npm install --save @zckevin/electron-asar-differential-updater 


# install other dependencies from original electron-builder
npm install --save-dev builder-util-runtime

Set differentialAsarZip in package.json

{
  "build": {
    // ...

    differentialAsarZip: true
  }
}

dev

Use the following Node/pnpm versions in case pnpm install fails:

node version: 16.16.0
pnpm version: 7.6.0