Electron app version check

main.js

request('https://api.github.com/repos/ngudbhav/TriCo-electron-app/releases/latest', {headers: {'User-Agent':'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 '}}, function(error, html, body){
		if(!error){
			var v = app.getVersion().replace(' ', '');
			var latestV = JSON.parse(body).tag_name.replace('v', '');
			var changeLog = JSON.parse(body).body.replace('<strong>Changelog</strong>', 'Update available. Here are the changes:\n');
			if(latestV!=v){
				dialog.showMessageBox(
					{
						type: 'info',
						buttons:['Open Browser to download link', 'Close'],
						title: 'Update Available',
						detail: changeLog,
					}, function(response){
						if(response === 0){
							shell.openExternal('https://github.com/ngudbhav/TriCo-electron-app/releases/latest');
						}
					}
				);
				notifier.notify(
				{
					title: 'Update Available',
					message: 'A new version is available. Click to open browser and download.',
					icon: 'images/logo.png',
					sound: true,
					wait:true
				});
				notifier.on('click', function(notifierObject, options) {
					shell.openExternal('https://github.com/ngudbhav/TriCo-electron-app/releases/latest');
				});
			}
		}
	});

If one wants to check if a new release is available without any download, This way can be used. The script uses Github public repository release to get the tag number of the latest release. The tag number obtained is then matched with the current version. The changelog is obtained using the body property. This can be used to create some good outputs.