Handle Squirrel's event on an Electron app

Question

These days I\'m toyng around with Electron to build a small native app for Windows and I\'m using Grunt Electron Installer to create an installer for my application.

Answer 1

You could handle each Squirrel event and create shortcuts:

  case '--squirrel-install':
          target = path.basename(process.execPath);
          updateDotExe = path.resolve(path.dirname(process.execPath), '..', 'update.exe');
          var createShortcut = updateDotExe + ' --createShortcut=' + target + ' --shortcut-locations=Desktop,StartMenu' ;
          console.log (createShortcut);
          exec(createShortcut);
          // Always quit when done
          app.quit();
          return true;

case '--squirrel-uninstall':
            // Undo anything you did in the --squirrel-install and
            // --squirrel-updated handlers
            target = path.basename(process.execPath);
            updateDotExe = path.resolve(path.dirname(process.execPath), '..', 'update.exe');
            var createShortcut = updateDotExe + ' --removeShortcut=' + target ;
            console.log (createShortcut);
            exec(createShortcut);
            // Always quit when done
            app.quit();
            return true;