Electron Installer: Snap Universal

Builds Snap files for Electron applications that have already been bundled and customized with the addition of universal architecture.

When snapcraft.yaml specifies multiple architectures, a universal application is created containing the tag in the file name of -multi- to represent multiple architecture build in a single snap package. Similar for MacOS pkg which is a universal package for both x64 and arm64 applications and Windows APPX for holding multiple windows architectures.

Requirements

Requires Node 10 or greater, and snapcraft.

Quick Start

The easiest way is to use Electron Forge and enable the snap maker.

To use this as a standalone CLI, install @pingleware/electron-installer-snap to your project:

npm install --save-dev @pingleware/electron-installer-snap
# or
yarn add --dev @pingleware/electron-installer-snap

Then add to your package.json:

{
  // ...
  "scripts": {
    "build:package": "electron-packager . --out=out"
    "build:snap": "electron-installer-snap --src=out/myappname-linux-x64"
  },
  // ...
}

Then you can run npm run build:package && npm run build:snap, which will prepare the Electron app for bundling and generate a .snap file in your current directory. It is recommended to ignore the generated snap directory in your version control.

Options

Available command-line options are displayed when you run electron-installer-snap --help.

For the JavaScript API, please see the API docs.

Changes by PINGLEWARE

• add architecture option universal which returns amd64, arm64, armhf, i386

Thanks

Thank you to Canonical for the support in getting this module created, during the September 2017 Ubuntu Rally and the January 2018 Snapcraft Summit.

Legal

This project is copyrighted under the Apache License (version 2). See LICENSE for details.