Chapter 4

In-App Auto-Update

Binary swap + GitHub releases + modal UI.

~24 min total3 lessonsAssignment

By the end of this chapter you'll be able to

Wire the updater
Build the modal UI
Cut a release that auto-distributes

Lessons

Module: Updater

updater.go

The Wails binding + binary swap.

9mhard

Modal + banner UI

React components shipping in scaffold.

7mmedium

release-desktop.sh

One-shot pipeline.

8mmedium

Chapter assignment

Cut v0.1.1 and watch v0.1.0 auto-update

Install v0.1.0 of your app. Change a small thing, bump version to 0.1.1, run release-desktop.sh. The running v0.1.0 should detect the new release, prompt the user, and swap to v0.1.1.

See success criteria

Lesson 1 takes ~9 min.

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