kcvgan/update-notifications-demo

PoC for checking for app updates

Try it out by running:

yarn install

then installing serve globally if not installed yet by running

yarn add serve -g

We need to build the app for production by running

yarn build

and then serve it by running

serve -s build

It should open on localhost:3000

To see the version change and update/show it on the front page we have to

1. Change the version in package.json
2. Shut down the server
3. Run yarn build && serve -s build
4. Remember not to refresh (so that the old app is running still) the page and let it find the update

What is required for this to work apart from the hook/js implementation are two things:

1. A metatag added to index.html

<meta name="app-version" content="%REACT_APP_VERSION%" />

2. An env variable REACT_APP_VERSION=$npm_package_version

The metatag can be added to the HTML in numerous ways, one of them being HTMLWebpackPlugin which could inject it during build time.