Continuous Deployment of a electron app using GitLab

Question

I am developing a desktop app on a Linux machine. The code is hosted on GitLab.com. I'd like a sample gitlab-ci.yml on building the app for Windows. I'm out of ideas on how to go about this, any assistance will be appreciated.

Answer 1

The build steps depends on the library you are using to build the electron app. Here is a sample using electron-builder

// .gitlab-ci.yml
stages:
  - build

build:
  image: electronuserland/builder:wine
  stage: build
  script:
    - yarn
    - yarn dist:win
  artifacts:
    expire_in: 30 days
    paths:
      - ./dist/
  only:
    - master

// package.json
{
    ...
    "scripts": {
        ...
        "dist:win": "electron-builder -w",
    }
}