Create an Installer for an Electron App using Electron Forge!

This video will cover how to use Electron Forge to create an installer for your electron app. This installer will allow you by just double clicking it to automatically install the app on your pc. This specific project i use is my Angular Electron app from a previous video which is linked in the same playlist. If you want more information on the documentation i used to create this video check the links below. If you want access to the repo become a member below.

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npm install --save-dev @electron-forge/cli @electron-forge/maker-squirrel @electron-forge/maker-deb @electron-forge/maker-zip

npm install --save-dev @electron-forge/plugin-fuses

npm install --save-dev @electron-forge/plugin-auto-unpack-natives

npm install --save-dev @electron-forge/maker-squirrel

npm install --save-dev @electron-forge/maker-zip

npm install --save-dev @electron-forge/maker-deb

npm install --save-dev @electron-forge/maker-rpm

npm install electron

#ElectronForge #ElectronInstaller #Electron

Timestamps
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00:00 Intro
00:50 What Is Electron Forge? Why did I choose it?
03:25 Adding Electron Forge To Our Electron Angular App
12:50 Testing the Electron Forge Created Installer

[badgoat]

you are amazing, the fact that you kept up with the process and explained every step and error made me to finally package my electron app after a lot of tutorials that has failed. thank you

[hardynesssensei]

Thanks, bro! You're really awesome. I've tried following the tutorials from the official Electron website multiple times and never succeeded, tilI found your video.

[saurabhpandey-cgtr]

Thats great video . Can you make video how to implement a auto update functionality

[valkyyri]

Where can I find a full example of the forge.config.js file? The command that's supposed to create it does nothing for me and I can't find a single example on the internet

[ashwanipandey]

I have created the .deb file and .rpm, but at the time of installation in ubuntu it says not supported

[RiddheeGupta-tsen]

Is it possible for you to make a tutorial on how to create a Auto Updater for Electron Forge? I am using a Webpack Template for React as my Frontend and I certainly cant find enough doc to make an auto updater, I am constantly going into dead-end.

[joshuaedward]

I have an issue though, in my case i have a golang exe file in my project which i run as a process to act like a backend server. When working on dev and running "npm run start" it works fine but after i make me desktop executable for the file the built executable give an error saying.

Uncaught exception:
error: spawn server.exe ENOENT

[daniel]

Does the electron version of your app have any advantages compared to the pwa?