feat: Handling windows.squirrel events in main process

electron/index.js

@@ -16,6 +16,71 @@ const {
 const isDev = require("electron-is-dev");
 const { wrap: catchError } = require("./utils");
 
+function handleSquirrelEvent() {
+  if (process.argv.length === 1) {
+    return false;
+  }
+
+  const ChildProcess = require('child_process');
+  const path = require('path');
+
+  const appFolder = path.resolve(process.execPath, '..');
+  const rootAtomFolder = path.resolve(appFolder, '..');
+  const updateDotExe = path.resolve(path.join(rootAtomFolder, 'Update.exe'));
+  const exeName = path.basename(process.execPath);
+
+  const spawn = function(command, args) {
+    let spawnedProcess, error;
+
+    try {
+      spawnedProcess = ChildProcess.spawn(command, args, {detached: true});
+    } catch (error) {}
+
+    return spawnedProcess;
+  };
+
+  const spawnUpdate = function(args) {
+    return spawn(updateDotExe, args);
+  };
+
+  const squirrelEvent = process.argv[1];
+  switch (squirrelEvent) {
+    case '--squirrel-install':
+    case '--squirrel-updated':
+      // Optionally do things such as:
+      // - Add your .exe to the PATH
+      // - Write to the registry for things like file associations and
+      //   explorer context menus
+
+      // Install desktop and start menu shortcuts
+      spawnUpdate(['--createShortcut', exeName]);
+
+      setTimeout(app.quit, 1000);
+      return true;
+
+    case '--squirrel-uninstall':
+      // Undo anything you did in the --squirrel-install and
+      // --squirrel-updated handlers
+
+      // Remove desktop and start menu shortcuts
+      spawnUpdate(['--removeShortcut', exeName]);
+
+      setTimeout(app.quit, 1000);
+      return true;
+
+    case '--squirrel-obsolete':
+      // This is called on the outgoing version of your app before
+      // we update to the new version - it's the opposite of
+      // --squirrel-updated
+
+      app.quit();
+      return true;
+
+    default:
+      return false;
+  }
+};
+
 const createWindow = () => {
   const win = new BrowserWindow({
     minWidth: 1280,
@@ -55,28 +120,39 @@ const addHandlers = () => {
   ipcMain.handle("createVault", catchError(createTable));
 };
 
-app.whenReady().then(async () => {
-  try {
-    await connect(app);
-    await createTable();
-    createWindow();
-
-    // Renderer-to-main two-way process communication
-    addHandlers();
-  } catch (err) {
-    dialog.showErrorBox("Error", err.message);
-    app.quit();
-  }
-});
+const main = async () => {
+  if (require('electron-squirrel-startup')) return app.quit();
 
-app.on("window-all-closed", () => {
-  if (process.platform !== "darwin") {
-    app.quit();
+  if (handleSquirrelEvent()) {
+    return;
   }
-});
 
-app.on("activate", () => {
-  if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
-    createWindow();
-  }
-});
+  app.whenReady().then(async () => {
+    try {
+      await connect(app);
+      await createTable();
+      createWindow();
+
+      // Renderer-to-main two-way process communication
+      addHandlers();
+    } catch (err) {
+      dialog.showErrorBox("Error", err.message);
+      app.quit();
+    }
+  });
+
+  app.on("window-all-closed", () => {
+    if (process.platform !== "darwin") {
+      app.quit();
+    }
+  });
+
+  app.on("activate", () => {
+    if (BrowserWindow.getAllWindows().length === 0) {
+      createWindow();
+    }
+  });
+
+}
+
+main();