Electron-builder: How to read the documentation?

[ccorcos]

I'm struggling to understand how the documentation works.

I'm trying to set up the autoupdate configuration for a generic url path. I have no idea what the name of the field is and where it goes, not what channel is.

https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/wiki/Publishing-Artifacts#genericserveroptions--publishconfiguration

[mzmiric5]

You would normally just add a publish property to your build section in the package.json
If you wanted to use different publish configurations for different platforms, then you would move the publish property to the specific platform build section.

So if you just wanted to add a generic url path to the config you would just edit your package.json and somewhere in the build section you would have the following:

{
  ...,
  "build": {
    ...,
    "publish": {
      "provider": "generic",
      "url": "https://your.generic.url"
    },
    ...
  },
  ...
}

The channel field is optional, and is something you would use if you wanted to differentiate between the alpha, beta, and general builds for your app.

Hope this helps

[develar]

@mzmiric5 👍

@ccorcos https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/wiki/Publishing-Artifacts#publish-options

[Avien]

@mzmiric5, @develar
So if I want to have a dynamic url according to build env like:
production to:
https://www.something.com/update
and master to:
https://www.something.com/update-beta

Than I cant use a dynamic url meaning override url in the cli script or have 2 sets of publish mac configuration? I will have to use the channel option?