How to create an installable release?

[TheAutomaTom]

Howdy y'all,
I am really enjoying learning some new things about CI and such with your great template! May I ask on clarification of the release workflow? I have all ci.yalm1 tests passing. When I use github to create a release... the product is just my source code. Should I be setting something in .idea\deployment.xml?
I was expecting a build folder to be created on my local drive, but the CI workflow is an awesome touch!
Thanks you for any advice. I hope I might be able to flush out the docs to help others, if I can get some help, here.

[cawa-93]

.idea contain IDE configs only. This has nothing to do with the build. If you do not use the IDE from jetbrains, you are free to delete this directory entirely.

• npm run build — bundle local assets (transpile ts to js, transpile css, bundled modules, typical bundler stuff)
• npx electron-builder --config .electron-builder.config.js — creating a binary program from the bundled assets

Check https://github.com/cawa-93/vite-electron-builder/blob/main/.github/workflows/release.yml. It contain full production pipeline including building assets and compilation binaries. Basically to get installers on your local machine you should run npm run build && npx electron-builder --config .electron-builder.config.js.

Here are also npm run compile script. It create binnaries but it is non-production. This script is intended to create a "production-like" binary for further debugging locally, not for distribution to end users.

npm run compile Basically is just npm run build && npx electron-builder --config .electron-builder.config.js but with extra configs for local dev improvements.

[TheAutomaTom]

Thanks for that help!

[lanseria]

I encountered while using GitHub Actions release feature. Although the actions show success, no release files were actually published. I am wondering what could be the reason behind this.

Could you please provide some insights on how to solve this issue?

My repository url: https://github.com/lanseria/test-electron-mapbox/actions