Add periodic background update checks#182
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SDSLeon
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Jun 15, 2026
SDSLeon
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- Schedule an automatic update check 30 seconds after launch so startup stays responsive while still discovering releases early
- Poll hourly while the app keeps running so long-lived sessions find new versions without a restart
- Skip redundant scheduled checks when a check or download is already in progress, and stop polling once an update is downloaded and ready to install
- Add tests for the initial delay, hourly interval, and idle gating using fake timers and an event-emitting autoUpdater mock
- Delay initial check to 30s and poll hourly while the app runs - Gate scheduled checks when one is in flight or an update is staged - Clear the interval before quitAndInstall to avoid races - Add timer-based tests with an event-emitting electron-updater mock
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| // affordance reacts to the resulting status). | ||
| setTimeout(runScheduledCheck, INITIAL_CHECK_DELAY_MS); | ||
| periodicTimer = setInterval(runScheduledCheck, PERIODIC_CHECK_INTERVAL_MS); |
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When the update endpoint is temporarily unreachable (offline laptop, captive portal, flaky GitHub releases), this new hourly interval keeps calling runScheduledCheck; the shared autoUpdater.on("error") handler sends an error status, and the renderer's update handler turns every such status into a danger toast. That means users can get an update-error toast every hour from a background poll they did not initiate, so the scheduled path should either suppress UI error statuses or back off separately from manual checks.
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