Own VPN client on JavaScript. Part 11 - Building an Application for Windows

PS Each part is a part, by itself it does not make sense to get the necessary context and not to experience cognitive dissonance from the lack of so necessary blocks of text, start reading from part 1

This time I’ll compile the application with the npm module of the electron-builder , thanks to the developers for the convenient documentation for the module and many examples of config settings (no).

Last time I collected the npm application with the electron-packager module , as far as I know, it cannot build in exe, in any case at that time I could not do it.

The contents of the package.json file.

1 { 2 "name": "JS.VPN-Client", 3 "version": "0.3.77", 4 "description": "VPN Client", 5 "main": "index.js", 6 "homepage": "https://github.com/JsusDev/JS.VPN-Client", 7 "build": { 8 "appId": "JS.VPN-Client", 9 "productName": "JS.VPN-Client", 10 "copyright": "JSus & Developments 2018", 11 "win": { 12 "target": "nsis", 13 "icon": "icon.ico", 14 "legalTrademarks": "JSus & Developments 2018", 15 "asar": false 16 } 17 }, 18 "author": { 19 "name": "JSus & Developments", 20 "email": "jsusdev@yandex.ru" 21 }, 22 "license": "ISC", 23 "dependencies": { 24 "child_process": "^1.0.2", 25 "fs": "^0.0.1-security", 26 "ipify": "^2.0.0", 27 "js-base64": "^2.4.9", 28 "request": "^2.88.0" 29 } 30 }

Parsing package.json

Line	Description
2	Package Name (required)
3	Package / Application Version (Required)
four	Package / Application Description
five	Package entry point
6	Package / Application Home Page
7	Config object for electron-builder
eight	ApplicationUserModelId (AUMID) is a combination of PackageFamilyName and PackageRelativeApplicationID (PRAID) - I do not know what it is
9	The name of the application (if you do not specify the value will be taken from the name)
ten	Copyright
eleven	Build Platform (win, mac, linux) (required)
12	How to package the application (7z, zip, tar.xz, tar.lz, tar.gz, tar.bz2, dir, etc) (required)
13	Application icon (if you do not specify it will be standard)
14	Trademarks
15	The way of internal archiving of the application must be disabled because it removes files with the exe extension.
18	Publisher, you can specify a string
23	Dependencies, among them there should be no electron otherwise there will be an error