Auto-updater on OS X

Pecans provides a backend for the Squirrel.Mac auto-updater. Squirrel.Mac is integrated by default in Electron applications.

Endpoint

The endpoint for Squirrel.Mac is http://download.myapp.com/update/osx/:currentVersion.

This url requires different parameters to return a correct version: version and platform.

Electron Example

For example with Electron's auto-updater module:

const app = require("app");
const os = require("os");
const autoUpdater = require("auto-updater");

const platform = os.platform() + "_" + os.arch();
const version = app.getVersion();

autoUpdater.setFeedURL(
  "http://download.myapp.com/update/" + platform + "/" + version
);