Electron Auto-Updater via Renderer (Frontend) Manipulation

electron-builder presents a delightful auto-update flow for Electron apps that gives you a lot of flexibility about how, where and when you want to serve and update your application. Once you integrate it in your electron app, it works beautifully with checkForUpdatesAndNotify where the app will automatically check for updates and notify the user if there is an update they can install. The update is then automatically installed when the app is closed. Here, we will take a different road and manipulate the app-update lifecycle from the frontend (in the case…