Pecans

Pecans is a simple (and smart) application to serve desktop-application releases. It was forked from Nuts. I have a few goals

• ES6 update

• Update Dependencies

• New Features

  • Download from assets backend CDNs with private links instead of proxying

Schema

It uses GitHub as a backend to store assets, and it can easily be deployed to Heroku as a stateless service. It supports GitHub private repositories (useful to store releases of a closed-source application available on GitHub).

Features

• Store assets on GitHub releases

• Proxy releases from private repositories to your users

• Simple but powerful download urls

  • /download/latest

  • /download/latest/:os

  • /download/:version

  • /download/:version/:os

  • /download/channel/:channel

  • /download/channel/:channel/:os

• Support pre-release channels (beta, alpha, ...)

• Auto-updates with Squirrel

  • For Mac using /update?version=<x.x.x>&platform=osx

  • For Windows using Squirrel.Windows and Nugets packages

• Private API

• Use it as a middleware: add custom analytics, authentication

• Serve the perfect type of assets: .zip for Squirrel.Mac, .nupkg for Squirrel.Windows, .dmg for Mac users, ...

• Release notes endpoint

  • /notes/:version

• Up-to-date releases (GitHub webhooks)

• Atom/RSS feeds for versions/channels

Deploy it / Start it

Follow our guide to deploy Pecans.

Auto-updater / Squirrel

This server provides an endpoint for Squirrel auto-updater, it supports both OS X and Windows.

Documentation

Check out the documentation for more details.