From 25543cb7ba22ccf4c767c2fe4ff81f710039099f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MiTHRAL <mithral@mithral.local>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:19:57 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: auto-download and install updates in the background

Downloads the platform zip, extracts over the install dir, then
prompts to restart with a single click.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
---
 src/native/updater.ts | 72 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/native/updater.ts b/src/native/updater.ts
index 2c95c01..111dbde 100644
--- a/src/native/updater.ts
+++ b/src/native/updater.ts
@@ -1,32 +1,84 @@
-import { Notification, app, shell } from "electron";
+import { Notification, app } from "electron";
+import { exec } from "child_process";
+import { createWriteStream, mkdirSync } from "fs";
+import { dirname, join } from "path";
+import { tmpdir } from "os";
+import { pipeline } from "stream/promises";
+import { Readable } from "stream";
 
 const RELEASES_URL =
   "https://git.mithraic.cloud/api/v1/repos/ad3laid3/sanctum/releases/latest";
 
+interface Asset {
+  name: string;
+  browser_download_url: string;
+}
+
+interface Release {
+  tag_name: string;
+  html_url: string;
+  assets: Asset[];
+}
+
 export async function checkForUpdates() {
   try {
     const res = await fetch(RELEASES_URL);
     if (!res.ok) return;
 
-    const release = (await res.json()) as { tag_name: string; html_url: string };
+    const release = (await res.json()) as Release;
     const latest = release.tag_name.replace(/^v/, "");
     const current = app.getVersion();
 
     if (!isNewer(latest, current)) return;
 
-    const notification = new Notification({
-      title: "Update Available",
-      body: `Version ${latest} is available. Click to download.`,
-      silent: true,
-    });
+    const asset = findAsset(release.assets);
+    if (!asset) return;
 
-    notification.on("click", () => shell.openExternal(release.html_url));
-    notification.show();
+    notify("Update Downloading", `Sanctum ${latest} is downloading in the background…`);
+    await downloadAndInstall(asset.browser_download_url, latest);
   } catch {
-    // non-critical — silently ignore network/parse errors
+    // non-critical
   }
 }
 
+function findAsset(assets: Asset[]): Asset | undefined {
+  if (process.platform === "linux")
+    return assets.find((a) => a.name.includes("linux") && a.name.endsWith(".zip"));
+  if (process.platform === "win32")
+    return assets.find((a) => a.name.includes("win32") && a.name.endsWith(".zip"));
+}
+
+async function downloadAndInstall(url: string, version: string) {
+  const tmpDir = join(tmpdir(), `sanctum-update-${version}`);
+  mkdirSync(tmpDir, { recursive: true });
+  const zipPath = join(tmpDir, "update.zip");
+  const extractDir = join(tmpDir, "extracted");
+
+  const res = await fetch(url);
+  if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Download failed: ${res.status}`);
+
+  await pipeline(Readable.fromWeb(res.body as Parameters<typeof Readable.fromWeb>[0]), createWriteStream(zipPath));
+
+  const installDir = dirname(process.execPath);
+
+  await new Promise<void>((resolve, reject) => {
+    exec(
+      `unzip -o "${zipPath}" -d "${extractDir}" && SUBDIR=$(ls "${extractDir}" | head -1) && cp -rT "${extractDir}/$SUBDIR" "${installDir}"`,
+      { shell: "/bin/bash" },
+      (err) => (err ? reject(err) : resolve()),
+    );
+  });
+
+  const n = notify("Update Ready", `Sanctum ${version} is installed — click to restart.`);
+  n.on("click", () => { app.relaunch(); app.exit(0); });
+}
+
+function notify(title: string, body: string) {
+  const n = new Notification({ title, body, silent: true });
+  n.show();
+  return n;
+}
+
 function isNewer(latest: string, current: string): boolean {
   const parse = (v: string) => v.split(".").map(Number);
   const [lA, lB, lC] = parse(latest);