Pecans

Pecans is a simple (and smart) application to serve desktop-application releases. It was forked from Nuts. I have a few goals

• ES6 update
• Update Dependencies
• New Features
  • Download from assets backend CDNs with private links instead of proxying

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).

Features

• 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
• 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

Deploy it / Start it

Follow our guide to deploy Pecans.

Auto-updater / Squirrel

This server provides an endpoint for Squirrel auto-updater, it supports both OS X and Windows.

Documentation

Check out the documentation for more details.