Class: VelopackApp

VelopackApp helps you to handle app activation events correctly. This should be used as early as possible in your application startup code. (eg. the beginning of main() or wherever your entry point is)

Constructors

new VelopackApp()

new VelopackApp(): VelopackApp

Returns

VelopackApp

Methods

onAfterInstallFastCallback()

onAfterInstallFastCallback(callback): VelopackApp

WARNING: FastCallback hooks are run during critical stages of Velopack operations. Your code will be run and then the process will exit. If your code has not completed within 30 seconds, it will be terminated. Only supported on windows; On other operating systems, this will never be called.

Parameters

Parameter	Type
callback	VelopackHook

Returns

VelopackApp

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onAfterUpdateFastCallback()

onAfterUpdateFastCallback(callback): VelopackApp

WARNING: FastCallback hooks are run during critical stages of Velopack operations. Your code will be run and then the process will exit. If your code has not completed within 15 seconds, it will be terminated. Only supported on windows; On other operating systems, this will never be called.

Parameters

Parameter	Type
callback	VelopackHook

Returns

VelopackApp

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onBeforeUninstallFastCallback()

onBeforeUninstallFastCallback(callback): VelopackApp

WARNING: FastCallback hooks are run during critical stages of Velopack operations. Your code will be run and then the process will exit. If your code has not completed within 30 seconds, it will be terminated. Only supported on windows; On other operating systems, this will never be called.

Parameters

Parameter	Type
callback	VelopackHook

Returns

VelopackApp

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onBeforeUpdateFastCallback()

onBeforeUpdateFastCallback(callback): VelopackApp

WARNING: FastCallback hooks are run during critical stages of Velopack operations. Your code will be run and then the process will exit. If your code has not completed within 15 seconds, it will be terminated. Only supported on windows; On other operating systems, this will never be called.

Parameters

Parameter	Type
callback	VelopackHook

Returns

VelopackApp

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onFirstRun()

onFirstRun(callback): VelopackApp

This hook is triggered when the application is started for the first time after installation.

Parameters

Parameter	Type
callback	VelopackHook

Returns

VelopackApp

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onRestarted()

onRestarted(callback): VelopackApp

This hook is triggered when the application is restarted by Velopack after installing updates.

Parameters

Parameter	Type
callback	VelopackHook

Returns

VelopackApp

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run()

run(): void

Runs the Velopack startup logic. This should be the first thing to run in your app. In some circumstances it may terminate/restart the process to perform tasks.

Returns

void

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setArgs()

setArgs(args): VelopackApp

Override the command line arguments used by VelopackApp. (by default this is env::args().skip(1))

Parameters

Parameter	Type
args	string[]

Returns

VelopackApp

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setAutoApplyOnStartup()

setAutoApplyOnStartup(autoApply): VelopackApp

Set whether to automatically apply downloaded updates on startup. This is ON by default.

Parameters

Parameter	Type
autoApply	boolean

Returns

VelopackApp

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setLocator()

setLocator(locator): VelopackApp

VelopackLocator provides some utility functions for locating the current app important paths (eg. path to packages, update binary, and so forth).

Parameters

Parameter	Type
locator	VelopackLocatorConfig

Returns

VelopackApp

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build()

static build(): VelopackApp

Build a new VelopackApp instance.

Returns

VelopackApp