# Pecans Documentation

Pecans is a simple (and smart) application to serve desktop-application releases.

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

![Schema](https://3806533860-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-legacy-files/o/assets%2F-ManDcVlAUWlZ5A3mnAu%2Fsync%2Fd84072a217e28ccbc49416b617bf96178af5623a.png?generation=1622213045718393\&alt=media)

Please make sure that you use the documentation that match your Pecans version (Latest version is ).

## FAQ

There are questions that are asked quite often, [check this out before creating an issue](https://pecans.darrelopry.com/main/docs/faq).

## Help and Support

We're always happy to help out with any questions you might have. You can ask a question or signal an issue on [GitHub](https://github.com/dopry/pecans/issues).

## Guides

We've created a few guides to help you getting started:

* [Deploy Pecans](https://pecans.darrelopry.com/main/docs/deploy)
* [Upload release's assets](https://pecans.darrelopry.com/main/docs/assets)
* [Setup GitHub integration](https://pecans.darrelopry.com/main/docs/github)
* [Setup OS X Auto-Updater](https://pecans.darrelopry.com/main/docs/update-osx)
* [Setup Windows Auto-Updater](https://pecans.darrelopry.com/main/docs/update-windows)
* [Debug API](https://pecans.darrelopry.com/main/docs/api)
* [Use it as a Node.js middleware](https://pecans.darrelopry.com/main/docs/module)

Using Pecans for your application? [Add it to the list](https://pecans.darrelopry.com/main/docs/using-it).


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