Travis CI continuous build

current travis setup

There is no deployment as such as it's electron app, so the build described above serves as a packaging of the app for release.

However As of version 1.0.8 support is added for Linux thanks to @probonopd, #36. On commit to master there is a continuous built setup on Travis CI that builds and adds an up to date linux and mac os x release to the release section under release section.

Inspired by this issue In the latest iteration it use electron-builder -mwl --publish alwayson Travis CI Mac OSX instance to package for these platforms,

• Mac

• Linux

• Windows

This is an attempt to capture some notes on the steps of setting up travis CI integration in the current implementation

github + Travis CI

Travis CI Integration

1 - enable Travis CI for your repository as described here

2 - Set up GITHUB_TOKEN in Travis CI for this to work. as described here

(Direct link to Github token here)

Add a .travis.yml file to your repository

os: osx
osx_image: xcode9.4
language: node_js
node_js: "8"
sudo: required

env:
  global:
    - ELECTRON_CACHE=$HOME/.cache/electron
    - ELECTRON_BUILDER_CACHE=$HOME/.cache/electron-builder

# specifying npm version as
# by default travis seemed to sue 4.2.0
# https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/languages/javascript-with-nodejs/#using-a-specific-npm-version

install:
  - node --version
  - npm i -g npm@5
  - npm --version
  - npm install
  - npm run make_js

script:
  - npm run build:mwl:publish:always;
  - ls ./dist;
  - find . | grep mac.zip;
  - find . | grep x86_64.AppImage;
  - find . | grep .exe;

branches:
  except:
    - # Do not build tags that we create when we upload to GitHub Releases
    - /^(?i:continuous)/

package.json

added to the the npm scripts

"scripts": {
  ...
    "build:mwl:publish:always": "electron-builder -mwl --publish always",
...
}
"build": {
    "publish": {
      "provider": "github",
      "releaseType": "prerelease",
      "vPrefixedTagName": false
    },
    ....

Skipping Code signing on Travis

docs for Code Signing - electron-builder

CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY=false

To disable Code Signing when building for macOS leave all the above vars unset except for CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY which needs to be set to false. This can be done by running export CSC_IDENTITY_AUTO_DISCOVERY=false.

Or you can set in travis settings, for ENVs

Another way — set mac.identity to null. You can pass additional configuration using CLI as well: -c.mac.identity=null.

if you skip this the build will fail on travis

Electron builder documentation

more on electron builder here

• github repo electron-userland/electron-builder
• publishing artifacts
• configuration