Nuts is a simple (and smart) application to serve desktop-application releases.
It uses GitHub as a backend to store assets, and it can easily be deployed to Heroku as a stateless service. It supports GitHub private repositories (useful to store releases of a closed-source application available on GitHub).
- ✨ Store assets on GitHub releases
- ✨ Proxy releases from private repositories to your users
- ✨ Simple but powerful download urls
/download/latest
/download/latest/:os
/download/:version
/download/:version/:os
/download/channel/:channel
/download/channel/:channel/:os
- ✨ Support pre-release channels (
beta
,alpha
, ...) - ✨ Auto-updates with Squirrel
- For Mac using
/update?version=<x.x.x>&platform=osx
- For Windows using Squirrel.Windows and Nugets packages
- For Mac using
- ✨ Private API
- ✨ Use it as a middleware: add custom analytics, authentication
- ✨ Serve the perfect type of assets:
.zip
for Squirrel.Mac,.nupkg
for Squirrel.Windows,.dmg
for Mac users, ... - ✨ Release notes endpoint
/notes/:version
- ✨ Up-to-date releases (GitHub webhooks)
- ✨ Atom/RSS feeds for versions/channels
Follow our guide to deploy Nuts.
This server provides an endpoint for Squirrel auto-updater, it supports both OS X and Windows.
This server provides an endpoint for Electron crashReporter
. Required ENV variables are:
POSTMARK_API_KEY = t0k3n
SEND_CRASH_REPORTS_FROM = [email protected]
SEND_CRASH_REPORTS_TO = [email protected]
ELECTRON_VERSIONS = '1.7.9 1.7.10'
Check out the documentation for more details.