Two separate reasons "Restart to update" only ever showed up after pressing
"check for updates" by hand, and one reason the restart was unpleasant.
1. `update-downloaded` is a one-shot push to whichever page happens to be
loaded. It is dropped when the window is in the tray (mainWindow is null),
when the 10s post-launch check beats the web app's listener registration,
and on every reload. Once an update is staged the poll latches off, so it
was never re-announced — a manual check was the only way back. The main
process already tracks this in recoveryStore, so expose it over IPC and have
the banner ask on mount rather than rely on catching the event live.
2. UpdateBanner was only mounted in the mobile layout. On the desktop app the
visible one was UpdateToast, which duplicated the same "update ready" card
in untranslated English. Mount the banner on desktop too and reduce the
toast to the failure case it does not share.
3. quitAndInstall() defaults to a non-silent install, so on Windows restarting
meant clicking through the NSIS wizard. Pass silent + force-run-after, and
switch the installer to one-click per-user, which is what lets the silent
install proceed without an elevation prompt.
The manual-download link in the failure toast pointed at the upstream GitHub
repository, which is private for this fork and 404'd for everyone. Point it at
the fork's Gitea releases, where the updater feed already lives.
Regression test covers the case the live event never announced; verified by
mutation that removing the status query fails it and nothing else.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Dev/prod URL auto-detection (Vite 5173 in dev, server 3000 in prod)
- Typed IPC bridge via preload (notifications, badge, window controls, updates, deep links)
- Native OS notifications via NotificationController with window focus suppression
- Auto-update via electron-updater with UpdateToast UI
- Deep linking (backspace:// protocol) for macOS and Windows/Linux
- Window state persistence (position, size, maximize across restarts)
- Tray icon with graceful fallback when icon asset missing
- Suppress PWA service worker polling/reloads inside Electron
- Platform detection layer (isElectron, getElectronAPI)
- Root workspace scripts (dev:desktop, build:desktop)
- Document BACKSPACE_URL and BACKSPACE_UPDATE_URL env vars
devsyncwrldandClaude Opus 5