How I Pushed a Critical Update to Every Company Branch Without Touching a Single Machine (Electron Auto-Update Deep Dive)

Short summary

Author describes a four-layer system for pushing Electron app updates to distributed branch offices without manual intervention, using electron-updater with a private HTTP server. The pipeline automates build publishing, performs silent version checks on app launch, bridges update events to the UI, and includes SSH/SFTP resilience tuning for unreliable networks. Implementation enables true mass deployment from a single npm command.

• •Four-layer architecture: build publishing, main process update checking, IPC bridge, UI feedback
• •Uses electron-updater pointed at private HTTP server (no third-party dependency)
• •Handles network resilience and hash verification; installs automatically on app quit

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