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Demo-nwapp with nwbuilder and nwupdater

Node-Webkit Demo of how to use nw-builder and nw-updater, based on example from:

nw-builder:

node-webkit-updater:

https://github.com/edjafarov/node-webkit-updater

Changes:

updater.js

      function deleteApp(cb){
		  console.log("del:" + to);
		  // In windows platform, can't delete nw parenet running folder 'to' AppPath, just to delete all content inside AppPath
		  //del(to, {force: true}, cb);
		  del(to + '\\*', {force: true}, cb);        
      }

index.html

    function newAppInstalled(err){
      if(err){
        console.log(err);
        return;
      }
	  // Can't pass null to upd.run, should use [] as parameter
	  //upd.run(execPath, null);	 
      upd.run(execPath, []);	  
      gui.App.quit();
    }

Build & Install

Install nw-builder (run as Administrator in Windows Platform)

npm install nw-builder -g

Install node_modules dependency for demo nwapp

cd nwapp
npm install

Install node_modules dependency for demo builder (optional if you don't have all modules for nw-builder yet)

# goto root of demo
npm install

Build & Packaging demo nwapp (run as Adminstrator in Windows Platform)

# goto root of demo
nwbuild -v 0.12.3 -p win64 ./nwapp

ZIP nwapp

Make nwapp.zip for including all contents under build\nw-demo\win64\

Copy nwapp.zip to folder nw-demo-web

Running Demo nwapp

Copy folder nw-demo-web to web server (eg. Tomcat Webapp)

Run nwapp

build\nw-demo\win64\nw-demo.exe

No update will happen, the running version is latest version compare to latest.json in nw-demo-web

Test Demo nwapp updater

Change latest.json for testing purpose, no actual version upgrade in nwapp.zip :

"version": "0.1.0" -> "version": "0.1.1"

Then try to Run nwapp, nwapp updater should be working now. Enjoy! :-)

longnan/demo-nwapp-with-nwbuilder-and-nwupdater