If you're shipping an Electron desktop app to end users and you don't have auto-update wired in, you're going to keep getting "this is broken" bug reports from users who are actually running a version from three releases ago.
I've shipped 25 releases of GramShift Desktop (an Instagram automation indie SaaS) over the past several months, and bolting on auto-update from day one was easily one of the highest-ROI infrastructure decisions I've made. This post is the implementation core + the specific traps I walked into.
Setup: electron-updater + GitHub Releases
The stack is boring on purpose:
electron-updater (the npm package) handles update detection + download + install
