element-desktop/src/squirrelhooks.js

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Copyright 2017 OpenMarket Ltd

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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const path = require('path');
const spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
const { app } = require('electron');
const fsProm = require('fs').promises;

function runUpdateExe(args) {
    // Invokes Squirrel's Update.exe which will do things for us like create shortcuts
    // Note that there's an Update.exe in the app-x.x.x directory and one in the parent
    // directory: we need to run the one in the parent directory, because it discovers
    // information about the app by inspecting the directory it's run from.
    const updateExe = path.resolve(path.dirname(process.execPath), '..', 'Update.exe');
    console.log(`Spawning '${updateExe}' with args '${args}'`);
    return new Promise(resolve => {
        spawn(updateExe, args, {
          detached: true,
        }).on('close', resolve);
    });
}

function checkSquirrelHooks() {
    if (process.platform !== 'win32') return false;

    const cmd = process.argv[1];
    const target = path.basename(process.execPath);
    if (cmd === '--squirrel-install' || cmd === '--squirrel-updated') {
        Promise.resolve().then(() => {
            return runUpdateExe(['--createShortcut=' + target]);
        }).then(() => {
            // remove the old 'Riot' shortcuts, if they exist (update.exe --removeShortcut doesn't work
            // because it always uses the name of the product as the name of the shortcut: the only variable
            // is what executable you're linking to)
            const appDataDir = process.env.APPDATA;
            if (!appDataDir) return;
            const startMenuDir = path.join(
                appDataDir, 'Microsoft', 'Windows', 'Start Menu', 'Programs', 'New Vector Ltd',
            );
            return fsProm.rmdir(startMenuDir, { recursive: true });
        }).then(() => {
            // same for 'Element (Riot) which is old now too (we have to try to delete both because
            // we don't know what version we're updating from, but of course we do know this version
            // is 'Element' so the two old ones are all safe to delete).
            const appDataDir = process.env.APPDATA;
            if (!appDataDir) return;
            const oldStartMenuLink = path.join(
                appDataDir, 'Microsoft', 'Windows', 'Start Menu', 'Programs', 'Element', 'Element (Riot).lnk',
            );
            return fsProm.unlink(oldStartMenuLink).catch(() => {});
        }).then(() => {
            const oldDesktopShortcut = path.join(app.getPath('desktop'), 'Element (Riot).lnk');
            return fsProm.unlink(oldDesktopShortcut).catch(() => {});
        }).then(() => {
            const oldDesktopShortcut = path.join(app.getPath('desktop'), 'Riot.lnk');
            return fsProm.unlink(oldDesktopShortcut).catch(() => {});
        }).then(() => {
            app.quit();
        });
        return true;
    } else if (cmd === '--squirrel-uninstall') {
        runUpdateExe(['--removeShortcut=' + target]).then(() => {
            app.quit();
        });
        return true;
    } else if (cmd === '--squirrel-obsolete') {
        app.quit();
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

module.exports = checkSquirrelHooks;