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T Sudhish Nair
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Building and publishing an Electron application using electron-builder

Building, packaging and publishing an app with the default Electron npm packages can be quite challenging. It involves multiple packages and offers limited customization. Additionally, setting up auto-updates requires significant additional effort, often involving separate tools or services.

electron-builder is a complete solution for building, packaging and distributing Electron applications for macOS, Windows and Linux. It is a highly configurable alternative to the default Electron packaging process and supports auto-update out of the box.

In this blog, we look into how we can build, package and distribute Electron applications using electron-builder.

Read more here: https://www.bigbinary.com/blog/publish-electron-application

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