github.md

GitHub

The GitHub target publishes all your artifacts to GitHub releases, this allows your users to download the files straight from your repository or if your repository is open source you can use update.electronjs.org and get a free hosted update service.

Configuration options are documented in PublisherGitHubConfig

{% hint style="info" %} You can use this target to publish to GitHub Enterprise using the host configuration options of octokitOptions. Check out the configuration options linked above. {% endhint %}

Usage

{% code title="forge.config.js" %}

module.exports = {
  // ...
  publishers: [
    {
      name: '@electron-forge/publisher-github',
      config: {
        repository: {
          owner: 'me',
          name: 'awesome-thing'
        },
        prerelease: true
      }
    }
  ]
}

{% endcode %}