Nothing about this seems to be 'for Electron apps'?
It just sits between the app looking for an update and Github releases; returns the latest release if newer than a supplied version number assumed to be the current.
Is it really so bad to have that `if latest.version > version` logic in the app itself, and download directly from Github?
Github releases are presumably pushed over a CDN and already well-cached - and almost certainly have better up-time than someone running an instance of this somewhere, which of course is still potentially victim to Github's down-time.
It just sits between the app looking for an update and Github releases; returns the latest release if newer than a supplied version number assumed to be the current.
Is it really so bad to have that `if latest.version > version` logic in the app itself, and download directly from Github?
Github releases are presumably pushed over a CDN and already well-cached - and almost certainly have better up-time than someone running an instance of this somewhere, which of course is still potentially victim to Github's down-time.
Have I missed something? What's the point?