How to build for mac app store?

[mcfedr]

I cannot see to set the platform or target setting to mas

electron-packager accepts mas as platform

[develar]

Not yet supported, it is easy to do, will be fixed tomorrow.

[mcfedr]

Awesome response @develar

I dont know how much you know about this. I have up to now been using electron-packager, in my gulp file, and a bit of code to build the package to upload for mac store.

The package is built with the tool productbuild - basically I run

productbuild --component "MyApp.app" "/Applications" --sign "' + codeSignPackage + '" "../../release/Myapp-mas-x64/MyApp.pkg"

Please beaware that its nessesary to use a different signing key to the one used to sign the .app

The app one is something like '3rd Party Mac Developer Application: Company (XXX)' and the installer one is '3rd Party Mac Developer Installer: Company (XXX)'

It would be best to have a separate option for the name of the key incase I need to call it something custom.

[develar]

@mcfedr Thanks for details. Yes – our current issue is that we don't use https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-osx-sign and don't use productbuild. Fix is — use electron-osx-sign (and, so, productbuild) and allow mas as target.

[mcfedr]

Yes, I was just looking at electron-osx-sign, and remembered why my code doesn't use it to generate the package file, electron/osx-sign#33

[adam-lynch]

@develar it would be amazing if this could be added ASAP. Adding it to my book. Can you confirm that this would be the correct way to set the platform to MAS?

"scripts": {
  ...
  "pack": "build",
  ...
},
"build": {
  ...
  "platform": "mas",
  ...
}

[develar]

@adam-lynch I am working on it right now. Fix will be published tomorrow morning.

Can you confirm that this would be the correct way to set the platform to MAS?

No. Implemented as "set build.osx.target to ["mas"]" — https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/wiki/Options#OsXBuildOptions-target — to the list of current targets mas will be added.

[adam-lynch]

@develar great thanks!

[develar]

@mcfedr Thank you for links, it was very useful. Your feedback is important, please try 3.11 (next version). See https://github.com/electron-userland/electron-builder/wiki/Code-Signing