How to sign electron app using electron forge?

Question

I am using electron forge for building and packaging my electron app.

How can I code sign my app (using electron forge) for windows and mac?

Electrong-forge: https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-forge

Answer 1

Use packagerConfig key in your package.json.

Electron Forge uses Electron Packager under the hood and allows you to set the Electron Packager configuration in your package.json.

Here's an extract of what mine looks like in order to sign our packaged application file:

package.json

{ 
  "config": {
    "forge": {
      "packagerConfig": {
        "osxSign": {
          "identity": "Developer ID Application: Joshua Pinter (<your_key_code>)"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

You can see that all the Electron Packager configurations can be put under the packagerConfig key.

NOTE: In older versions of Electron Forge, this was called electronPackagerConfig instead of packagerConfig.

Answer 2

electronPackagerConfig is now packagerConfig, e.g.:

{ 
  "config": {
    "forge": {
      "packagerConfig": {
        "osxSign": {
          "identity": "Developer ID Application: Company (id)"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}