go-githubupdate

Self update with github releases. Inspired by go-selfupdate

Features

• Checks github releases for a newer version and fetches binaries from there
• Should work on Mac, Linux, Arm and Windows (will get tested soon)

Quickstart

Enable your app to Self Update

u := updater.NewUpdater(
    version,                // Current version
    "broderickhyman",       // Your organization or user
    "go-githubupdate",      // Your repo
    "update-",              // Prefix for the files, full name will be eg: update-linux-amd64.gz, update-windows-amd64.exe.gz
)

if err := u.BackgroundUpdater(); err != nil {
    fmt.Println(err)
}

Upload gzip compressed binaries to github releases

An update is as easy as creating a new release on Github with the version Number as title and the binaries named like:

• update-linux-amd64.gz
• update-darwin-amd64.gz
• update-windows-amd64.exe.gz

License

MIT