Handle Squirrel's event on an Electron app - windows

Question

These days I'm toyng around with Electron to build a small native app for Windows and I'm using Grunt Electron Installer to create an installer for my application.
The installer is created successfully but I don't know how ho handle Squirrel's events inside my app, as stated in the docs I've added this to the entry point of my app:
var handleStartupEvent = function() {
if (process.platform !== 'win32') {
return false;
}
var squirrelCommand = process.argv[1];
switch (squirrelCommand) {
case '--squirrel-install':
case '--squirrel-updated':
// Optionally do things such as:
//
// - Install desktop and start menu shortcuts
// - Add your .exe to the PATH
// - Write to the registry for things like file associations and
// explorer context menus
// Always quit when done
app.quit();
return true;
case '--squirrel-uninstall':
// Undo anything you did in the --squirrel-install and
// --squirrel-updated handlers
// Always quit when done
app.quit();
return true;
case '--squirrel-obsolete':
// This is called on the outgoing version of your app before
// we update to the new version - it's the opposite of
// --squirrel-updated
app.quit();
return true;
}
};
if (handleStartupEvent()) {
return;
}
But I don't know what to do inside this switch statement to, for example, create shortcuts for my application. Actually I don't even know if this switch works at all because when I install (or uninstall) my application it get launched and never quits.
Any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

You could handle each Squirrel event and create shortcuts:
case '--squirrel-install':
target = path.basename(process.execPath);
updateDotExe = path.resolve(path.dirname(process.execPath), '..', 'update.exe');
var createShortcut = updateDotExe + ' --createShortcut=' + target + ' --shortcut-locations=Desktop,StartMenu' ;
console.log (createShortcut);
exec(createShortcut);
// Always quit when done
app.quit();
return true;
case '--squirrel-uninstall':
// Undo anything you did in the --squirrel-install and
// --squirrel-updated handlers
target = path.basename(process.execPath);
updateDotExe = path.resolve(path.dirname(process.execPath), '..', 'update.exe');
var createShortcut = updateDotExe + ' --removeShortcut=' + target ;
console.log (createShortcut);
exec(createShortcut);
// Always quit when done
app.quit();
return true;