Any hooks to subscribe to when autoupdate is about to update?

[yuvalkarmi]

Are there any events that auto updater sends that I can hook into? Something like autoupdate.on('about-to-update', function(){ ... }).

I'll explain the use case: My electron app prevent the app from quitting when a window closes on Mac (which is in line with how apps work on Mac). Instead, I have a flag called shouldQuit and only if it's true I call app.quit().

However, this prevent the auto updater from working. When a user clicks on "Update now" when prompted, I need to be able to set the flag shouldQuit to true to allow the app to actually quit.

Couldn't find anything about it in the documentation.

Thanks!

[hackal]

We had the same problem and solved it like this.

export function ensureSafeQuitAndInstall() {
    const electron = require('electron');
    const app = electron.app;
    const BrowserWindow = electron.BrowserWindow;
    app.removeAllListeners('window-all-closed');
    const browserWindows = BrowserWindow.getAllWindows();
    for (const browserWindow of browserWindows) {
        browserWindow.removeAllListeners('close');
    }
}

When user clicks Update now an event is send to the main process.

import { IpcMain, IpcMainEvent } from 'electron';
import { autoUpdater } from 'electron-updater';
import { ensureSafeQuitAndInstall } from '../utils';

ipcMain?.handle('update-and-restart', (_event: IpcMainEvent) => {
    ensureSafeQuitAndInstall();
    autoUpdater.quitAndInstall(true, true);
});

[yuvalkarmi]

Dude, you're on fire today! I ended up moving to electron-builder and the electron-updater instead of the update-electron-app module, as the latter supports these events. Thanks!

By the way, why are you removing the listeners?