Download progress

[tborychowski]

Is it possible to get a download progress event of some sort?
I'm using electron-builder auto updater, which is using Squirrel.Mac under the hood, and I cannot get the download progress, because apparently Squirrel does not provide it.

[develar]

Some clarification: electron-updater wraps official bundled auto-updater on macOS to get rid of special server requirements. Alongside other features. On Windows NSIS is used and, so, it is very easy to implement progress.

[igor-lemon]

+1

[796F]

+1

[thegnuu]

+1

[biroplane]

@develar can you explain "how easy can be to implement the progress"?! thanks

[jessica-pixvana]

+1

[develar]

1. Please use reactions instead of comments +1.
2. electron-builder auto-updater supports progress events — it will be released in 2 weeks. Stay tuned :)

[biroplane]

will you share with the rest of us the implementation, please? :)

[ghost]

atom/atom#9164

[ghost]

For the +1 out there, here's the reason why @develar made his comment so you have some context: https://github.com/dear-github/dear-github

[develar]

@biroplane electron-userland/electron-builder#1167 (comment)

Users of electron-builder / electron-updater — you are not affected by this issue anymore.

[develar]

If you for some reasons don't use electron-builder — electron-updater can be used standalone, but you will need to generate sha512 field in the update info file. This requirement can be relaxed if need. Feed url in the electron-updater it is url to dir, where channel update info file is expected (latest channel by default). e.g. feed url https://example.com -> https://example.com/latest-mac.yml file will requested (in case of generic provider).

I decided to not implement this logic on the native side, but in userland, because in this case user can use standard electron net API and customize behaviour (auth, redirect, proxy and so on).

[zjfjiayou]

+1

[zjfjiayou]

Thank you @develar, I find this problem for a long time, thank you have to fix the problem。https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/tree/master/packages/electron-updater

[tborychowski]

I have another way to make it work now, so no need for that.