element-web/electron_app/src/squirrelhooks.js

/*
Copyright 2017 OpenMarket Ltd

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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*/

const path = require('path');
const spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
const {app} = require('electron');

function runUpdateExe(args, done) {
    // Invokes Squirrel's Update.exe which will do things for us like create shortcuts
    // Note that there's an Update.exe in the app-x.x.x directory and one in the parent
    // directory: we need to run the one in the parent directory, because it discovers
    // information about the app by inspecting the directory it's run from.
    const updateExe = path.resolve(path.dirname(process.execPath), '..', 'Update.exe');
    console.log(`Spawning '${updateExe}' with args '${args}'`);
    spawn(updateExe, args, {
      detached: true,
    }).on('close', done);
}

function checkSquirrelHooks() {
    if (process.platform !== 'win32') return false;

    const cmd = process.argv[1];
    const target = path.basename(process.execPath);
    if (cmd === '--squirrel-install' || cmd === '--squirrel-updated') {
        runUpdateExe(['--createShortcut=' + target + ''], app.quit);
        return true;
    } else if (cmd === '--squirrel-uninstall') {
        runUpdateExe(['--removeShortcut=' + target + ''], app.quit);
        return true;
    } else if (cmd === '--squirrel-obsolete') {
        app.quit();
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

module.exports = checkSquirrelHooks;